FAST TRACK - 100 GRAMMATICAL & USEFUL PHRASE BITS
Watered-down, understandable, bite-sized grammar helps. Perhaps by knowing these basic Japanese grammar points, you will be able to communicate in Japanese limited only by vocabulary and guts! Of course this list is a simplified grammar, and is meant to be only an introduction to the grammar points presented.
Chapter One
Basic word order
Desu
and と、そして
2 Basic verb forms
Making questions か
Question words
Possessive "'s" の
But でも;
Pronouns
Fillers ええと
Particles intro
if もし
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Chapter Two
Using さん
Easy adjectives
Past tense
Very とても
To want 〜がほしい
Want to do~ 〜たい
は、が
There is / There are
To like... が 好き
Why / Because なぜ、どうして、なぜなら
I think と思います
Become に なります
Also も
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Chapter Three
Making the て form
to do, play する・します
more, ~er もっと
Can できる
-ing ている
For example たとえば
This これ・この
That それ・その
That over there あれ・あの
Must do なければなりません
better do... ほうがいい
better / worse than のほうが〜より
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Chapter Four
How... どう
Isn't it? でしょう
said といいました
Negative verbs
Negative adjectives
Plan to 予定、つもり
Punctuation 。、「」
Should/Must はず
Because II ので
Although のに
Using 何
Easy to... やすい
Hard to... にくい
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Chapter Five
Looks like 〜みたい
I've heard 〜そう
Like, as... 〜ように
like, as if らしい
Let's... しましょう
Won't you...? 〜ませんか
Power ender "ね;"
When, that time とき
Using こと・もの
situation, case 場合
Etc... and... など、とか
About くらい・ぐらい
How about ...? どう
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Chapter Six
しまった・ちゃった
Please do... 〜てください
Please give me... をください
on, in, above, behind...
Why don't we...? 〜ませんか
Closer look at を
Closer look at に
Closer look at で
Closer look at が
If II たら
Soft ender II ちょっと
The power ender "よ"
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Chapter Seven
The non-but, even if でも・ても
The best, -est いちばん
About... について
Can't, not allowed いけません
Easy kanji prefixes
Easy counters
The Explanatory "んです"
の as a pronoun
How to... 〜かた
Please don't 〜ないでください
Have done... ことがあります
To decide to have... にします
About ~ほど
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Chapter Eight
Even if たとえ、～ても
And, and, etc ～たり
While ながら
May I...? ～でもいいですか？
Not much あまり
The power "そう"
Polite Japanese 敬語
polite II お～ください、お～になります
Giving & receiving あげる、くれる、もらう
Level / degree of something ～さ
Just did... ばかり
Can II たべられます、よめます
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