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Wordly Wednesday: Learning Japanese. Building Vocabulary: Group 2 (Ichidan) Verbs, Part 110/23/2019 Ohayo! Genki desu ka? Good morning! How are you? Today we'll be going over Group 2, or Ichidan, verbs. But first let's go over Thought Assignment #10 from last week: I hope you did well. Are you finding that it’s getting easier? I hope so. It does get better with practice and exposure to spoken Japanese. (Check out Japanesepod101 on YouTube for great videos to listen to. Or, take the next step on your learning path and go to Japanesepod101.com where you’ll have access to audio, video and written lessons. Grab this link to get a 28% off discount. Offer good until 10/25/19.) If you’ll recall from my post introducing verbs (Group 1 verbs Part 1), you can tell the two groups of verbs apart by their endings. Group 1 verbs end in “u” and when conjugating them you remove the “u” and add “imasu.” Group 2 verbs, or Ichidan verbs, end in “eru” or “iru” and with these verbs you remove the “ru” and add “masu” to conjugate them. Although you will see many verbs that end in “ru” not all of them will be group 2 verbs. For example, the verb ganbaru ends in “ru,” however it is not a group 2 verb. For one thing, it doesn’t end in “iru” or “eru” and you only drop the “u” to conjugate it. Let’s review some Ichidan verbs: Please note: * iru is not to be confused with aru. Both verbs mean to be, exist, have. However iru refers to animate objects (alive, moving things such as humans, animals), while aru refers to inanimate objects (non-moving things such as plants, things, ideas). There are exceptions. For example, the word "robot" would use iru as they are "human-like," while when referencing a dead person you would use aru. ** tasukeru and tetsudau are similar in they both mean to help. However, tasukeru (group 2 verb) is more to help someone avoid something bad or do something that's very difficult, to save someone from something, to rescue someone. The verb tetsudau (group 1 verb) is for helping someone with something in a casual way, or on a task you’re already performing, or just because the other person wants help doing something to lighten the load, so to speak. Since it was helpful to me in my research of the usage of tasukeru and tetsudau, I'll include the Japanesepod101 YouTube video that explains their differences: Here’s the conjugation pattern for Group 2 verbs: Dictionary form – ru → stem + masu = present tense ex. iru – ru → i + masu = imasu And in the negative form: Dictionary form – ru → stem + masen = negative present tense ex. iru – ru → I + masen = imasen Okay. I’ll let you conjugate the rest of the verbs in the chart above for this week’s Thought Assignment #11. The first one was done for you in the example above. Now, getting back to conjugating Ichidan Doushi. In the present affirmative form: And in the negative form: Okay. I’ll let you conjugate the rest of the verbs in the chart above for this week’s Thought Assignment #11. You can use the examples above to help you with the rest of the verbs. Well, that's it for this week. Oh, and before I forget. I asked you a question last week: Will you do/try your best? Some of you may have guessed that my question was referencing one of our Godan verbs, ganbaru. So now, you will understand when someone asks you: Ganbarimasu ka? (Will you do/try your best?) And, you'll be able to say, Hai, ganbarimasu (Yes, I will do/try my best). Some of you may have also noticed that it's the same verb as when I've, in my closing remarks, suggested you try your best: Ganbatte kudasai. That's just a different form of the verb. We'll get into additional conjugation forms of verbs in future posts. Next week we'll go over the Group 3 verbs, suru and kuru. Until then, Ganbatte kudasai! Please do your best! Ja ne. Sources: Abe, Namiko. "Learn How to Conjugate Japanese Verbs." ThoughtCo, Jan. 5, 2019, https://thoughtco.com/how-to-conjugate-japanese-verbs-4058457. “Ask a Japanese Teacher - Difference between TETSUDAU and TASUKERU?” YouTube, 9 Jan. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzfr3Wo2Q. Accessed 21 Oct. 2019. Kim Ahlström, Miwa Ahlström and Andrew Plummer. Jisho.org by available at https://jisho.org Wikipedia contributors. (2019, September 18). Japanese verb conjugation. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:00, October 8, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_verb_conjugation&oldid=916300607 Beginner Japanese/Godan Verbs. (2019, June 22). Wikiversity. Retrieved 18:07, June 22, 2019 from https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Beginner_Japanese/Godan_Verbs&oldid=2026182. Beginner Japanese/Ichidan Verbs. (2019, April 13). Wikiversity. Retrieved 13:28, April 13, 2019 from https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Beginner_Japanese/Ichidan_Verbs&oldid=1997446. Wiktionary contributors, (2019, September 30), In Wiktionary: Appendix:1000 Japanese basic words, Verbs. Retrieved 08:11, October 7, 2019, from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:1000_Japanese_basic_words#Verbs Affiliates:
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