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🇯🇵 Japanese — Grammar Explained

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Hiragana — the phonetic backboneLesson 1 Greetings + the polite copula ですLesson 2 Topic は, question か, and the negativeLesson 3 の: noun-of-noun + intro to katakanaLesson 4 Numbers, 何, and a few kanjiLesson 5 い-adjectives and な-adjectivesLesson 6 Time expressions and 'at' にLesson 7 [verb-て] ください — please do XLesson 8 に for direction / existence, で for actionLesson 9 Existence: あります / います, plus 'I have…'Lesson 10 Polite past: -ました / -ませんでした / でしたLesson 11 Past forms of い-adjectives and な-adjectivesLesson 12 て-form by verb group, and ~ていますLesson 13 Verb stem + たいですLesson 14 Plain (dictionary) form, then 〜ことができますLesson 15 Suggesting and inviting from the ます-stemLesson 16 から vs のでLesson 17 When, before, afterLesson 18 〜たら — the universal conditionalLesson 19 [plain sentence] と言います / 思いますLesson 20 Plain form — the four shapesLesson 21 〜ています — three readingsLesson 22 [Vた] り [Vた] りするLesson 23 [Vます-stem] + ながら + [main verb]Lesson 24 Three sequencersLesson 25 〜たら as a completion-focused 'when/if', and a discovery markerLesson 26 Verb provisional form + ば — 'given X, Y'Lesson 27 Topic-given conditional — [X] なら, [advice/opinion]Lesson 28 Direction matters: in or out, to me or awayLesson 29 Three flavors of polite — for them, for me, and the everyday baselineLesson 30 Flipping the action so the affected party is the subjectLesson 31 'Make / let X do Y' — one form, two readingsLesson 32 When you didn't want to, but you had toLesson 33 From 'thinking I might' to 'it's on the calendar'Lesson 34 Whose eyes did this come through?Lesson 35 Conceding without giving inLesson 36 Doubling for proportionLesson 37 Three flavors of 'just / only'Lesson 38 Where in the action are you?Lesson 39 Nominalization: making a verb into a nounLesson 40 わけ — 'reason / case' as a logic operatorLesson 41 〜はず, 〜べき, 〜ものだ — three different 'shoulds'Lesson 42 〜ように, 〜ようにする, 〜ようになる — three ways to express change and intentLesson 43 〜たところで, 〜たとたん(に), 〜次第 — moment-of-action grammarLesson 44 擬音語 and 擬態語 — sound words and manner wordsLesson 45 〜とは and 〜って — definitional and topical "X"Lesson 46 〜ちゃう / 〜じゃう — informal 〜てしまう / 〜でしまうLesson 47 〜さ / 〜み — abstract noun formation from adjectivesLesson 48 Sentence-final particles — speech-style markersLesson 49 Capstone — synthesis of 50 lessonsLesson 50

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