The ULTIMATE Japanese Verb Conjugation CHEAT SHEET

Japanese verb conjugations are actually very easy if you just understand the Japanese verb stem system. The Japanese verb stem conjugation system is often overlooked by conventional textbooks but is the system that native Japanese speakers use to conjugate verbs.

Instead of letting the textbooks lie to you about how there are hundreds of complex verb conjugations in Japanese, understanding the native verb stem system allows you to see how Japanese verbs only really have 5 conjugations.

This video will be a step by step breakdown of how the Japanese verb stem conjugation system works as well as a brief look at every stem and some of the helper verbs and adjectives (助動詞) that can attach to each appropriate stem.

🎬 Timestamps:
00:00 How Japanese Verbs REALLY Conjugate
01:18 い-stem (連用形)
03:48 あ-stem (未然形)
06:35 え-stem (命令形・仮定形)
08:57 お-stem (推量系)
09:28 Lego-Like Structure of Japanese Verbs
11:32 Solving a Strange Oddity
12:53 DON'T use THIS Japanese System

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Opening title credits:
COEIROINK:AI声優-朱花

🎵 Music Credits (tiny links to Google Docs):
Most of the music comes from Epidemic Sound:

🎓 Knowledge credits go to my late teacher, Cure Dolly Sensei:

[JouzuJuls]

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This video took 3 months of writing, 2 weeks of editing, and 2 hospital trips to make.
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If you found this video helpful or enlightening in any way, please leave a comment letting me know and subscribe if you would like to see more!
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[narunanigoto]

Oh god, 13 minutes of overwhelming grammar rules. This is gonna take me a while to get adjusted, considering my reading speed is equal to a kid who's favorite crayon color flavor is みどり.

[andrettax]

The editing of this video is just INSANELY GOOD, so funny as well. The content couldn't be better. Cure Dolly surely is somewhere very proud of you!
Please never delete this channel!!

[leoj]

This is such an underrated video! I am a Japanese learner from Taiwan, and I've been learning Japanese for months now. Not even halfway through the video, I am already subscribed and am surprised by how few the likes and subscribe count are. My native language is Mandarin Chinese, which means I have a huge advantage in recognizing the kanji characters since the writing system of my native language is entirely based on such a system. I've been watching a lot of videos to teach myself Japanese; some of them are taught in Chinese, some are in English, and this video is one of the best tutorial videos by far, simplifying the rather complicated conjugation rules for beginners. I also find it extremely useful that this video directly uses kanji instead of hiragana letters, which oversimplifies the writing system for a learner like me who is already familiar with the characters. I feel so grateful that I've come across this video and was randomly recommended by the YouTube algorithm. Keep up the good work! Now that I've come across this video, I'd be binge-watching some of your other videos. Your channel deserves more views and subscribers.

[koolaid]

You make learning Japanese look so easy by explaining everything so clearly without missing a step, I can tell you really put a lot of effort into making your videos and you are so informative but underrated alongside with cure dolly sensei

[elioteas]

defining the difference between rareru with an a stem and rareru with an e stem literally changes everything ty

[josevitor]

I loved how you paid homage to Cure Dolly sensei with the explanation in the form of engines and the correct translations and "lego like structure" and two of her videos recommended, may she rest in peace.

[adsim]

I can genuinely say, that after two months of studying Japanese for hours every day - I did not quite understand conjugations until now - and suddenly I feel like I know them very well. This is a fuckin' excellent video.

[Mikelaxo]

The only thing I learned from this video us that conjugations are much kore complex than I thought

[syedhasan]

I didn't learn this way but rather immersed Japanese watching anime and still a beginner (advanced) in Japanese, but this video is a gold mine, and I agree with all of these explanations in this video.

Because after immersing I already know / expect how verb is going to change for different purposes and this video explained these rules in a brilliant way.

[DemanaJaire]

I’ve been saying that for years, and people looked at me like I’m crazy. I’m glad the Japanese conjugation is finally being talked about like that.

This is how I explain the verb conjugation to people struggling. When I was in high school, I graduated in 2012, and learning Japanese, this is the patterned I learned before my Sensei challenged me Kokugo. Great, editing and Video. I will recommend this to those who need a visual understanding as well.

[MrZeDeathcaller]

Finally someone undusting the teaching of Cure Dolly (RIP), I'm glad that this way of learning Japanese grammar is spreading. (Julien Fontanier, a french YouTube-teacher also seem to work this way, although he didn't fully uncovered the scheme yet)
But atm you're like the third person that I know in the YouTube game explaining the Japanese grammar like this.

[ching-chiawang]

This video is pure gold for someone like me who has been confused for a while by the J verbs. Thank you JouzuJuls san so much for making this informative and animated tutorial. Best one on YouTube.

[qayyimful]

Bro pls make more videos like this. I must say this save me so much time than try to learn the traditional way. You so good. Thank you so muchhhh

[tchibou]

Most helpful japanese video lesson ive seen in my life

[MichaelAnderson]

I can tell I'm officially old since I find this rapid fire editing and pacing style very difficult to follow. The content is so nice, though! If you cut the sound effects by 90% and increased the runtime by 100% to let each topic breathe a bit, I think it would be much more useful. But everyone else seems to be just happy with it, so I'll see myself out and into the nursing home.

Oh, for future videos, my other suggestion would be to pronounce あ like the Japanese vowel instead of the English letter A, since it sounds like you're saying え, especially since you used the Japanese pronunciation for every other vowel.

[astrus]

The fact that I took nearly one year of Japanese lessons online to learn a fraction of the grammar knowledge dump you put in this video is insane. A lot of this stuff I had started picking up naturally, but as I watch your video it all clicks and makes even more sense.

[blackxp]

underrated video, simplify the verb conjugation so well and included so many examples

[JuanDavid-ughd]

I could like the video 100 times and still won't show how thankful I am. Thank you, really.