User:LokiClock/Basic Japanese checklist

かなしむ悲しむ哀しむ - to be sad (kanashimu)
なく泣く - to cry (naku)
わらう笑う - to laugh (warau)
おこる怒る - to be angry (okoru)
ほめる褒める - to encourage (homeru)
よろこぶ喜ぶ - to celebrate, to be jubilant; to have a joy, to have a delight, to have rapture (yorokobu)
- よろこび - joy, delight, rapture (yorokobi)
なぐさめる慰める - to console, to consolate, to provide empathy (nagusameru)
あきる飽きる - to be disinterested, to be bored, to be tired of, to be weary (akiru)
おどろく驚く - to be astonished, to be surprised, to be scared (odoroku)

Activities [edit]

あう会う - to meet, to interview (au)
あける開ける - to open, to unwrap (akeru)
あそぶ遊ぶ - to play (asobu)
あつまる集まる - (intransitive) to gather (atsumaru)
うる売る - to sell (uru)
える得る - to obtain (some benefit or knowledge) (eru)
おる折る - (transitive) to break, to fold (oru)
かう買う - to buy (kau)
きる切る - to cut (kiru) (conjugates as a u-verb!)
きる着る - on the upper body, to wear (kiru)
はく履く - on the lower body, to wear (haku)
かえる変える - (transitive) to change (kaeru)
かえる代える - to exchange/substitute/replace (kaeru)
しめる閉める - (transitive) to close (shimeru)
しめる締める - to tie, to fasten (shimeru)
しめる占める - to comprise, to account for (shimeru)
しる知る - to know (shiru) (conjugates as a u-verb!)
つかれる疲れる - to get tired (tsukareru)
でかける出掛ける - to go out, to depart (dekakeru)
はたらく働く - 働くよKING - to work, e.g. at a job (hataraku)
はなす放す離す - to let go of (hanasu)
1 - やすむ休む - 休まずKING - to rest, to take a break, to go to bed
わかれる分かれる - to split into (wakareru)
わかれる別れる - (intransitive) to separate; to break up (wakareru)

Adverbs [edit]

もう - already
まだ - still, yet
ずっと - always
1 - とても - very
1 - こう - like this
1 - そう - like that
ああ - Oh!, Ah!
2 - どう - How

Pre-noun adjectival [edit]

この - this
その - that
あの - that
どの - which

Interjections [edit]

M - はい - yes
1 - いいえ - no

Conjunctions [edit]

そして - and then, Then <sentence>
しかし - but, however
なぜなら - that is because, being because

Terminations of verbs [edit]

うよう - Volitional ending (う for u-verbs, よう for ru-verbs): "Let's..." or "I will"
せるさせる- Causative ending (せる for u-verbs, させる for ru-verbs): to make (someone do something) or to allow.
れるられる Passive verb ending (れる for u-verbs, られる for ru-verbs): To be verbed (eg. 食べられる, "to be eaten")
そうだ Indicates that it *seems* the verb occurs (It seems he ate, etc.)
た - informal past-tense
たい - Indicates desire to perform verb
だろう - Indicates that it *seems* the verb occurs; also used to ask whether the verb occurs
ない, ん - Informal negative (ん is a slurred version and sounds a little masculine)
ぬ - Archaic informal negative
ます - Formal non-past ending

Particles [edit]

Case [edit]

M - が - subject marker, but
から - from
で - at, by
1 - と - and, with
に - indirect object marker
M - の - possession marker, of
1 - へ - to (e)
まで - to
より - than
を - direct object marker (o)

Binding [edit]

M - は - topic marker (wa)
2 - も - as well
1 - や - and

Conjunctive [edit]

および及び - and
か - whether
かも - might be, possible that
そして - and then
それとも - or
それに - to that
だの - and things like<a,b,c> including
つつ - ongoing occurence (similar to ながら but has different tone, and both actions have equal weight)
て - see te form
と - when, if, that
ながら - while, though, both
ならびに - as well as
なり - whether or not
に - to <somewhere>, by <someone>
の - (duplicate)
ので - so
また又 - an, also, again
または又は - or alternatively (matawa)
も - (duplicate)
や - (duplicate)

Final [edit]

1 - ね emphasis and question marker. equivalent to "right?"
2 - か question marker
2 - な the copula particle used after quasi-adjectives
かしら I wonder
さ -ness
っけ particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information (what class is next -kke?)

Adverbial [edit]

こそ- emphasis
さえ - even
しか -only
すら - even
1 - くらいぐらい - approximately, about
だけ - only, as much as
1 - だって - however
ったら - casual topic marker; colloquial form of "to ittara"; (if you refer to ~; as for ~)
って - said that
1 - でも - also, or
どころ - (particle used to indicate that what precedes it is an extreme example and strongly negates it)
など - for example
なら - if //for verbs ; subject marker //for nouns (???)
なんか - casual undervalue, dislike, lack (formal: など)
なんて - casual undervalue, dislike, lack (formal: など)
は - topic marker (wa)
ばかりばっかり - just, full of, only
まで - until
も - (duplicate)

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