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sevenseacattoday at 9:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

As someone who is learning Japanese and is struggling through learning conjugations.... this is not explained simply to me.

Maybe it's because I'm at a different part of my learning journey, but this seems to go on and on and on about godan v ichidan verbs but doesn't touch on the actual conjugation (ie. how to turn "drink" into "didn't want to drink"), nor on plain form (everything is in polite form), and te-form gets a very very short mention at the end x_x

Also, the romaji did my head in but I understand that was done for a reason (I don't agree with the reason, but at least there was one)


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danabramovtoday at 12:33 PM

> doesn't touch on the actual conjugation (ie. how to turn "drink" into "didn't want to drink"), nor on plain form (everything is in polite form)

The conceit of the article is that it doesn’t teach any meanings, it just teaches “how to append a suffix to a stem”. If this much is obvious to you, that’s fine, the article isn’t useful to you. It was difficult for me to understand ichidan/godan.

The article does not attempt to explain how to pick the suffix or what those suffixes mean.