Fast Track: 100 Grammar Points

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 16:24
Detail from Returning from a Flower Picnic by Hishikawa Moronobu (1618-1694)

Watered-down, understandable, bite-sized grammar lessons. 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter One
  1. Basic word order
  2. です, the Copula
  3. "and" - と、そして
  4. 2 Basic verb forms
  5. Making questions - か
  6. Question words
  7. Possessive "'s" - の
  8. "but" - でも
  9. Pronouns
  10. Fillers - ええと
  11. Particles intro
  12. "if" - もし
Chapter Two
  1. Using さん
  2. Easy adjectives
  3. Past tense
  4. "very" - とても
  5. "to want" 〜がほしい
  6. "want to do~" - 〜たい
  7. は、が
  8. There is / There are
  9. "to like..." - が　好き
  10. "why/because" - なぜ、どうして、なぜなら
  11. "I think" - と思います
  12. "become" - に　なります
  13. "also" - も
Chapter Three
  1. Making the て form
  2. "to do, play" - する・します
  3. "more, ~er" - もっと
  4. "can" - できる
  5. "~ing" - ている
  6. "for example" - たとえば
  7. "this" - これ・この
  8. "that" - それ・その
  9. "that over there" - あれ・あの
  10. "must do" - なければなりません
  11. "better do..." - ほうがいい
  12. "better/worse than" - のほうが〜より
Chapter Four
  1. "how..." - どう
  2. "isn't it?" - でしょう
  3. "said" - といいました
  4. Negative verbs
  5. Negative adjectives
  6. "plan to" - 予定、つもり
  7. Punctuation 。、「」
  8. "should/must" - はず
  9. "because" part 2 - ので
  10. "although" - のに
  11. Using 何
  12. "easy to..." - やすい
  13. "hard to..." - にくい
Chapter Five
  1. "looks like" - 〜みたい
  2. "I've heard" - 〜そう
  3. "like, as..." - 〜ように
  4. "like, as if" - らしい
  5. "let's..." - しましょう
  6. "won't you...?" - 〜ませんか
  7. Power ender "ね"
  8. "when, that time" - とき
  9. Using こと・もの
  10. "situation, case" - 場合
  11. "etc... and..." - など、とか
  12. "about" - くらい・ぐらい
Chapter Six
  1. "how about ...?" - どう
  2. しまった・ちゃった
  3. "please do..." - 〜てください
  4. "please give me..." - をください
  5. on, in, above, behind...
  6. "why don't we...?" - 〜ませんか
  7. Closer look at を
  8. Closer look at に
  9. Closer look at で
  10. Closer look at が
  11. "if" II - たら
  12. "soft ender" II - ちょっと
  13. The power ender "よ"
Chapter Seven
  1. The non-but "even if" - でも・ても
  2. "the best, ~est" - いちばん
  3. "about..." - について
  4. "can't, not allowed" - いけません
  5. Easy kanji prefixes
  6. Easy counters
  7. The Explanatory んです
  8. の as a pronoun
  9. "how to..." - 〜かた
  10. "please don't" - 〜ないでください
  11. "have done..." - ことがあります
  12. "to decide to have..." - にします
Chapter Eight
  1. "about" - ~ほど
  2. "even if" - たとえ、～ても
  3. "and, and, etc" - ～たり
  4. "while" - ながら
  5. "may I...?" - ～でもいいですか？
  6. "not much" - あまり
  7. The power そう
  8. Polite Japanese - 敬語
  9. Polite II - お～ください、お～になります
  10. Giving/receiving - あげる、くれる、もらう
  11. Level/degree of something - ～さ
  12. "just did..." - ばかり
  13. "can" II - たべられます、よめます

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