Free Japanese verb forms guide

What's inside

• The three verb groupsU-verbs, ru-verbs and the two irregulars, する and 来る. How to tell them apart from the dictionary form, and the verbs like 帰る and 入る that look like ru-verbs but aren't.
• Eight verbs, eight forms書く, 話す, 待つ, 飲む, 買う, 食べる, する and 来る in the dictionary, polite, negative, past, te-form, want to, can and let's forms.
• The te-formThe sound rules as one small chart, like む, ぶ and ぬ becoming んで, the 行って exception, and what the te-form is for: 〜ている, 〜てください and linking actions.
• Polite or plainます, ません, ました and ませんでした next to the plain forms, why anime is mostly plain, rough commands like やめろ, and casual shortcuts like 知ってる.
• PracticeTen lines you hear in anime, like 待って and 分からない, to read and name the form, then ten verbs to put in the te-form. Cover the answers with a strip of paper and check yourself.

How to use it

1. Learn particles and a few basic words first. This guide builds on them.
2. Read the first page and sort a few verbs you know into their groups.
3. Say one column of the table out loud each day.
4. Cover the answers on the practice page, then listen for the same forms in shows with Kitsumi.

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