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The Complete Japanese Verb Guide: Learn the Japanese Vocabulary and Grammar You Need to Learn Japanese and Master the JLPT
The Complete Japanese Verb Guide is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of language learning—verbs.
To effectively learn Japanese, a strong knowledge of Japanese grammar and vocabulary is needed. This book will come to the rescue as it shows learners how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little effort. This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form, while giving an accurate English translation for each conjugated form, making this book far more comprehensive than any other book on the subject.
Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spoken, written, formal and conversational Japanese—making this the ideal reference when reading any sort of Japanese printed materials including manga, newspapers, magazines and books. The Complete Japanese Verb Guide places an expert resource at your fingertips, giving you the information you need to speak, read, and write Japanese sentences correctly.
Key features of this book
To effectively learn Japanese, a strong knowledge of Japanese grammar and vocabulary is needed. This book will come to the rescue as it shows learners how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little effort. This is the only guide to list all verb forms in both Japanese script and romanized form, while giving an accurate English translation for each conjugated form, making this book far more comprehensive than any other book on the subject.
Compiled by Japanese language experts at The Hiro Japanese Center, more than 30 different verbal forms are given for each verb including all forms used in contemporary spoken, written, formal and conversational Japanese—making this the ideal reference when reading any sort of Japanese printed materials including manga, newspapers, magazines and books. The Complete Japanese Verb Guide places an expert resource at your fingertips, giving you the information you need to speak, read, and write Japanese sentences correctly.
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352 pages, Paperback
First published December 15, 1989
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September 15, 2020
A very handy reference. It begins with the basics of the various verb forms of the Japanese language. The main body consists of 600 common verbs with their various forms in tabular form, followed by examples in a sentence. The list of verbs (Japanese) is in alphabetical order (romanized). It has to be used with an English to Japanese dictionary so that one may search for the appropriate verb in Japanese.
September 14, 2019
This book arrived this morning and I can tell it's going to be an awesome resource for my Japanese learning and it lists conjugations for 600 verbs without the need to go back to check the rules for each conjugation. Great for a beginner like me until I become more familiar with the rules and vowel/consonant changes.
June 5, 2020
Such a helpful book, especially when you're in first year Japanese and struggling with verb conjugations. It's really helped me!
October 14, 2013
My mom is from Okinawa and we lived on Okinawa several times. I even took Japanese at a local community college, but none of my textbooks were ever as good as 600 Basic Japanese Verbs! From the very beginning, in the introduction, the verbs are broken down into easy to understand categories: u-dropping conjugation, ru-dropping conjugation, and irregular conjugation. Never has anyone taken the time to explain this to me before and now I am finally starting to understand Japanese when I watch anime with my kids, watch J-drama, or listen to my mom speaking Japanese. The explanation of differentiating between the verb endings was even simple enough for my high school girls to understand and apply to their basic Japanese that they are learning in school. With the Japanese script, Romanized forms, and English translations, practicing verb usage correctly is a breeze while improving my reading skills. I just told the teacher about this but the other day and he is just as excited!
June 8, 2011
If only I could damn well program all the blasted verbs and their English meaning into my brain for life.
Since that isn't happening anytime soon, this book serves as a very good study aid, definitely check it out :)
(As other students of the Japanese language will know, verb conjunction is quite a bitch in its entirety)
Since that isn't happening anytime soon, this book serves as a very good study aid, definitely check it out :)
(As other students of the Japanese language will know, verb conjunction is quite a bitch in its entirety)
August 1, 2009
Must-have for students of Japanese. If only I could program these listings into my 電子字書 (electronic dictionary).
March 22, 2016
This is a great book for the Japanese language learner. It explains all the different verb forms & how to make them.
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