Lesson 6: Japanese 'Adjectives' - the real secret that makes them easy. What schools never teach.

Japanese adjectives. The truth is very different from what the textbooks teach! Learn about "i and na adjectives" and what they really are - and how they are only half the story.

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1:43 "if you're worrying about na-adjectives, as they are called, don't worry. They're nouns."
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[APsupportsTerrorism]

"-na" adjectives are similar to "-ing" in English.
You can't tack "-ing" onto every word, but it's a frequent way to turn a noun into an adjective.
There is some difference in that '-ing' can also turn into verbs, and is somewhat arbitrary. But the concept is similar. It's a way of transforming nouns to adjectives.

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LESSON 6- JAPANESE ADJECTIVES
(I'm doing it to help me reviewXD)

00:01 // 00:34- introduction

1° engine ☆ 00:35- い adjectives
2° engine ☆ 01:41- verbs as adjectives
3° engine ☆ 03:19- な adjectives/nouns as adjectives

04:24- possessive particle (の) // saying something belongs to someone
05:03- possessive particle (の) // saying something belongs to a group

06:31- the three engines + の car
07:03- why you don't need to memorize if you use な or の to nouns being used as adjectives

08:13- Finishing

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"We can use entire verb sentences as adjectivals if we want to, and this happens very often."
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*Glitch warning:* The う-Engine at 3:18 should be a だ-Engine.
The worksheet for this lesson and the answers sheet are both now up (links below). They are on my Patreon, but currently you don't need to be a patron to access them. The worksheet is cumulative, using and practicing the things we have learned up to this point in order to make Japanese sentences.

The worksheet is here

and the answers are here

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