The Handbook of Japanese Verbs

by Kamiya, Taeko

• ISBN13: 9784770026835
• ISBN10: 4770026838
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-19
• Publisher: Kodansha USA

Summary

This handbook aims to present clearly and concisely the basics of Japaneseerb construction and to demonstrate how verbs work within various sentencetructures.;Part One deals with the conjugation of verbs: regular,emi-regular and irregular verbs. Conjugation practice for the studentollows the description of a verb or group of verbs. Part Two deals with thesage of various verb forms. Each usage is illustrated with example sentences.xercises are provided intermittently to test the student's progress.ppendices include exercise answers, a list of sentence patterns, a list oferbs divided into regular, semi-regular and irregular forms and annglish-Japanese dictionary.

Author Biography

TAEKO KAMIYA received a BA for Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) and MAs from the University of San Francisco in education and from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Among her publications are Speak Japanese Today (1989), Japanese for Fun: Make Your Stay in Japan More Enjoyable (1990), Tuttle New Dictionary on Loanwords in Japanese (1994), Subject-Grouped 1016 Kanji in Context (1997), and Japanese Particle Workbook (1998).

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(1)
Tenses of Verbs	9	(1)
Levels of Speech	10	(1)
Verb Groupings	11	(2)
Copulas (Be-verbs)	13	(1)
Auxiliaries	13	(2)
Transitive and Intransitive	15	(1)
PART I---CONJUGATION	16	(32)
Regular I Verbs	16	(13)
Regular II Verbs	29	(3)
Irregular Verbs	32	(2)
Copulas (Be-verbs)	34	(2)
Auxiliaries	36	(12)
PART II---USAGE OF VERB FORMS	48	(157)
Conjunctive Form	48	(15)
Dictionary Form	63	(39)
Negative Form	102	(35)
Conditional Form	137	(5)
Imperative Form	142	(2)
Volitional Form	144	(5)
Te Form	149	(26)
Ta Form	175	(24)
Tara Form	199	(3)
Tari Form	202	(3)
APPENDIXES	205	(1)
Answers to the Practices
Part I	205	(7)
Part II	212	(12)
Sentence Patterns	219	(19)
Basic Japanese Verbs
Regular I Verbs	224	(6)
Regular II Verbs	230	(3)
Irregular Verbs and Suru Verbs	233	(5)
English-Japanese Verb List	238