The Japanese Verb

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The Japanese Verb
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There are 3 basic groups of verbs in Japanese

• ichi dan verbs 1 step verbs

• go dan verbs 5 step verbs

• A small group of exeptions

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ichidan verbs end in iru or eru sound
For the polite
form.. take off
and add
and add
form . take off
For the
For the
plain past
take off
and add
For the
take off
plain negative
and add
iru
eru
(miru)

to eat
(taberu)
to see
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Verbs that look like ichidan verbs, but behave
like godan verbs are..
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Godan verbs use the 5 steps of the Japanese
alphabet sounds

• They can have the following endings

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The 5 sounds of the Japanese Alphabet are

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Each sound has its own use
At this stage you will only need to know how to
use the first three steps

• Line for plain negative form
• Line for polite form
• Line for the plain (dictionary) form

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So if you have a verb in the plain form you will
find it in the line
to write

• Change the sound into the sound and add
  
• for the polite form
• Change the sound into the sound and add
  
• for the plain negative form

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This will work for all Godan verbs

• The only exeption to this rule is that for verbs
  ending in like (to meet)
• The sound is changed to , because
  this is much easier to pronounce.
• Try it yourself
• versus

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The Exeptions
The irregular forms you need to know are
plain polite plain negative

• to come
• to do
• to be
• is/are

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The plain past

• This is easy if you know how to make the
  form.
• Just change the to (or to )
• The plain past of is

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The form?

• Go from the form and look at the sound
• before and change

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Now have a go at the polite form, plain
negative, form and plain past of the
following godan verbs...
The plain negative past is formed the same way as
negative past adjectives (it was not difficult
changes to

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And ofcourse you need to make notes of this in
your grammar book

• If you have access to a computer that can do
  powerpoint and you have an email address you can
  send it home as well