Tag Archives: adjectives

Talking About School Subjects

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Kenneth

This lessons has two purposes: 1) it's a vocab builder, and 2) it's a great topic for practicing the sentence structures from the last few lessons. Recommended Background: Suki and Kirai: Likes and Dislikes Making Comparisons Conjunctions and Compound Sentences … Continue reading →

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Making Comparisons: Yori, Hodo, and No Hou Ga

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Kenneth

In this lesson, you'll learn the Japanese equivalents of "X is more ___ than Y" and "X is not as ___ as Y". In order to do this, we'll need several new particles. Recommended Background: Japanese Adjectives Yori Yori is a … Continue reading →

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Suki and Kirai: Likes and Dislikes

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Kenneth

In this lesson we'll look at two particular adjectives, suki and kirai, that are used where we would use the verbs "to like" and "to dislike" in English. It's a little strange at first, but easy to understand. Recommended Background: … Continue reading →

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Colors in Japanese

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Kenneth

Japanese words for colors are predominantly no-adjectives, in contrast other basic adjectives, which are primarily i-adjectives and na-adjectives. As we go through the Japanese color words, there are also a couple of important points we can cover regarding their use. … Continue reading →

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Beginning Vocabulary: Adjectives

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Kenneth

This is a list of useful adjectives for beginners, plus some notes on usage and other interesting tidbits. It is not meant to be exhaustive. In Japanese, as in English, there are a large number of synonyms and near synonyms. … Continue reading →

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Japanese Adjectives

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Kenneth

This lesson is an introduction to the different classes of Japanese adjectives and how to use them as predicates and modifiers. Recommended Background: “No”, the Modifying Particle Demonstratives: the Ko-so-a-do Series Questions and Negation The Sentence Ending Particles “Ne” and … Continue reading →

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Japanese Word Classes

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Kenneth

You're probably familiar with grammatical word classes such as noun, verb, and preposition. These vary between languages – Japanese word classes are somewhat different than those in English, but the differences are not difficult to understand. This page is just … Continue reading →

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