-GRAMMAR- Basic Japanese sentence structure; SOV

[Jamaicankangaroo]

watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi hanashimasu ^__^ domo arigatou gozaimasu

[KaxyzKoi]

@Jamaicankangaroo dou itashimashite :D Don't forget about the u in doumo :) Go learn hiragana as soon as you have time :D

[choushichi]

you didn't say that in this video. but you said so in your comment to LalaJemie one month ago.

I'm sorry if I've offended you.

[KaxyzKoi]

@choushichi oh whoops ;3; I need to use my brain more ;;; I'm not offended! Thanks for pointing out my mistake!

[choushichi]

you can't say samui mizu. it's tsumetai mizu. samui means that the temperature is low.

[KaxyzKoi]

@choushichi Did I say that somewhere in this video?? Cause I knew that :O

[Sagonize]

Nice video, but, why you have so big glasses? :O

[KaxyzKoi]

@Sagonize LOL they're not *that* big! But because I like them :)

[moriahlovesrockout]

ありがとうございます！！ ：）

[KaxyzKoi]

@moriahlovesrockout どういたしまして :D

[LalaJemie]

Hiya! Where would you put the adjective? For example, "I drink cold water."

[KaxyzKoi]

@LalaJemie hey :) Adjectives arent included in this basic basic structure because they are always more flexible. For example in English you can say I am drinking cold water or the water that I am drinking is cold ect. In Japanese they usually work the same way, you can say watashi wa samui mizu wo nomimasu but I think there's ways to work it around as well when the grammar becomes more complicated :)

[hartstaken22]

watahi wa ami desu.i thimk i said im ami.

[KaxyzKoi]

@hartstaken22 Close :D Watashi not watahi, watashi wa ami desu means I am ami :D Good!

[littlemonkey246]

AHHHH MY BRIAN! DX I'll catch on one of these days. >3<

Please go into deatil about sentence particles soon, so confused about those.

How do you tell when a sentence ends? For example, in English we use the period. But in japanese I seen nothing of the sort. Also do you space between kana. and if you do or don't please explain. I'm sorry to ask so much

[KaxyzKoi]

@littlemonkey246 It's not a problem! I'm here to answer questions :D I will be making the particle videos as soon as I get enough homework done to have enough time to do them >.< I hope it won't take toooo long. As I just explained in this video, a Japanese sentence most usually ends with a verb (plus maybe a word like yo or ne) so usually if you hear the final verb you can tell it's over. Of course, when you understand a sentence in Japanese you can tell that it's over by understanding the

[KaxyzKoi]

meaning! But I suppose that will come with time :) Japanese do use periods. They look liek this 。 they also use commas, which look like this 、 You don't ever put space between your kana :) this is why it's helpful to learn all three alphabets, because it helps you differentiate between all the different words that are smushed together. Please watch my video called 'A reason I like kanji!' for more info on that :)

[littlemonkey246]

@KaxyzKoi Ohh I've seen the "。" before! XD I didn't know thats how to end the sentence.

So for example, would it be? " みーちゃん　is （<- FAIL on using is) すごい。　(yes he is BD lol)

Oh, kana doesn't use caps right?

[KaxyzKoi]

@littlemonkey246 Yeah, it's a period! ahaha みーちゃんはすごいですよ！ they can use exclamation too :D kana doesn't use caps no, there is no such thing in Japanese~ But if you would like to emphasize a word, typically it gets written in katakana to emphasize or bold it. I have a video on that too, its called something like when to use kanji/hiragana/katakana something like that :)

[littlemonkey246]

@KaxyzKoi Ohhh. so how come when seeing some kana it won't have a period or it'll be droped?

[KaxyzKoi]

@littlemonkey246 I'm not too sure why a lot of the time periods aren't use. I assume its because theyre mostly used when a thought becomes finished, so perhaps more at the end of paragraphs instead of individual sentences. Because Japanese came from Chinese I'm inclined to believe that a period wasn't an original part of the language, but I'd have to look into it!

[littlemonkey246]

@KaxyzKoi That makes sense. Thanks

[KaxyzKoi]

@littlemonkey246 No problem :D

[Dorgonfu]

How long did it take you to get wher you are now,in japanese?

[KaxyzKoi]

@Dorgonfu I've been studying for around five to six years, but I've taken beginner courses about 3 times. If I had actually progressed, I would be far past the level I am at right now XD; but I'd say it would take around three years for someone seriously studying to get to the level that I'm at now :)

[Oty3d]

The "watashi wa" can be dropped sometimes, daro?

So the sentence can be "mizu wo nomimasu" and still mean I drink water.

I think its done in more causal speech and among men.

[KaxyzKoi]

@Oty3d It's not just among men, everyone can drop their personal pronoun however, what I'm teaching is very formal and I wanted t leave in the watashi wa to show everyone that there is still a subject in Japanese sentences. :)

[Oty3d]

@KaxyzKoi Thanks. Would water become both the subject and object if "watashi wa" was dropped?

[KaxyzKoi]

@Oty3d Nope! That's why I chose to keep it there, because now you're confused ;3 Dropping your personal pronoun is not a formal way to speak, so it doesn't follow proper structure. mizu wo nomimasu only has an object and a verb

[Oty3d]

@KaxyzKoi Gome, I was just being silly. Hopefully I'm not confusing anyone. Still after much studying my Japanese knowledge has gaps. Thank you.

[KaxyzKoi]

@Oty3d aha no worries~ My knowledge still has gaps too :)

[theycalledmechris]

did you get into the course you wanted?

[KaxyzKoi]

@theycalledmechris I haven't gotten to enroll in Japanese class yet! I will have to go to the class and wait for someone to drop out (they will drop out though, cause they'll be overwhelmed with kanji XD) but otherwise I did :D!

[DMaestr0]

@KaxyzKoi do you have a video that explains the difference between on and kun reading? I really would like to learn some Kanji, however this has kept me stuck for quite a while now...

[KaxyzKoi]

@DMaestr0 I don't!! But I will try and make one in the future :D For now, just google difference between on and kun reading for kanji, its really quite simple so I think you'll be able to find a least part of an answer :)

[DMaestr0]

Watashi wa ringo tebemasu.

わたし は りんご たべます

[KaxyzKoi]

@DMaestr0 Awesome :D!! You need a particle 'wo' between ringo and tabemasu, but since I didn't teach that it doesn't matter much :) Thanks for making a good sentence :D

[PrincessLita1234]

Thanks for the video :))))) I can't wait for the rest! This is making sense, which is good. :3 And thanks for the shout out !!!!!!

[KaxyzKoi]

@PrincessLita1234 I'm glad :D! And no problem o/

[BrunetteGirlZz]

great video and very helpful!!i already knew that too but you make it look so much easier and simple so thanks for the video :)) i can't wait for the rest of the series especially for the particules' video!!is there a lot of them like:"wa, no,o,ga,ne..."?and is there a present progressive in japanese?what if i want to talk about shg that's happening right now? and is there a past perfect or is it just simple past? i mean what are the tenses in japanese? thx :))

[KaxyzKoi]

@BrunetteGirlZz I'm glad you liked it :D Oh my goodness ;;; you're using technical terms and I don't know them LMAO There is a form to say that you're doing something right now, actually that's called te form! And I already made a video on it before :D so you can go find that! and idont know the official tense names of anything in japanese im sorry ;n;!!! I'm gonna have to look them up for these videos LOL I fail....

[BrunetteGirlZz]

@KaxyzKoi oh my god i'm sorry!!i was just trying to compare it to english but i guess i shouldn't because it's so different.and i'll look for the te form video in your channel is it an old one?because i've never seen it!ごめん

[KaxyzKoi]

@BrunetteGirlZz Ah no don't worry! It's just me being a fail LMAO Because here, we never got taught the structure of english formally at school, so I never learned the official words for conjugation until I learned it in French, but then I learned all the words in french OTL; Japanese should have the same words for things but I just don't know them /)_(\;;; and it is on my channel! Just look hard :)

[LunaXenoLovegood]

ぼくわきゃべつをたべみます。

Did... Did I do it?! :D I don't know a lot of Kanji though, so all Hiragana.

[KaxyzKoi]

@LunaXenoLovegood all hiragana is just fine :D I hope you don't mind if I correct you! In this sentence, wa is used as a particle. Even if you don't know anything about particles, you should know that when 'wa' is said as a particle, it is always written using the character for ha. I don't know why! It's weird, but thats the rule XD Taberu = tabemasu :) not tabemimasu. And what did you mean by kyabetsu?

[LunaXenoLovegood]

@KaxyzKoi Thanks a lot for the corrections, I'll remember to use them in the future! And kyabetsu is cabbage! :P Just thought of a random food. :P

[KaxyzKoi]

@LunaXenoLovegood No problem! And oh 8D I didn't know that! I'l remember kyabetsu 8D

[forgottenmemories21]

I'm recently getting really confused about ヘand に. Why is the sentence, "私は公園へ行きます" instead of "私は公園に行きます"? How is に different than へ？

[KaxyzKoi]

@forgottenmemories21 I'm really sorry, but I don't think I can answer this question :( I'm not completely sure myself right now, and I don't want to try and brainstorm and come up with the wrong things DX I do believe へ is less used though. Hopefully when I do do my videos about particles and do some research, I may be able to give a better answer. Sorry again!!

[andremartins4]

i actually already knew this. still, always good to review .

watashi wa romaji o ketsubou masu (on Tumblr) ^^

did i succeed? :P (by the way, you could put the romaji on the tags on Tumblr) ;)

[KaxyzKoi]

@andremartins4 Yeah it is :D I'm not familiar with that word ketsubou :O what does it mean?? also you didnt conjugate it :) Is it ketsuboushimasu? I could put the romaji on the tags on tumblr but I don't want to ;3 I want you all to learn Hiragana~ There will be no romaji sorry!

[andremartins4]

@KaxyzKoi you're mean :( it wouldn't ruin the pictures and it would probably be easier to found them busing the search for tags thing on Tumblr.

oh well, if you don't want to write the romaji, it's ok :) seems like it'll take a little bit longer for me to read your pictures

[KaxyzKoi]

@andremartins4 I'm not mean hahahaha I just want to encourage everyone to learn! And it will take time to learn hiragana but this way you can practice without being able to cheat :)

[forgottenmemories21]

@andremartins4 no you got the wrong want.. it would be watashi wa romanji ga hoshii desu. The "watashi wa" isn't really needed ... I just put it there for emphasis.

[andremartins4]

@forgottenmemories21 oh, i see... is the "ga" part of the verb? or is it a particle ? anyways, i've got a question: are there irregular and regular verbs in japanese as well? i'm asking this because i've seen some verbs conjugated (like ending in -imasu) and others that use the "desu"... and, is there any rule that helps you know when to conjugate and when to use "desu"? thank, by the way .

[KaxyzKoi]

@andremartins4 ga is a particle :) The only 2 irregular verbs in Japanese are kuru and suru! Desu is it's own verb. Masu is a verb conjugation for present and future, which is what I mentioned in the video! So like, utaimasu ends in imasu!~ but if you say kore wa akai desu (this is red) you use desu (which technically is the 'is' in that sentence) to make up for the lack of verb!

[forgottenmemories21]

@andremartins4 "Ga" is a particle which marks the subject of a sentence. Yes there are regular and irregular verbs. The only irregular verbs Japanese really has are suru=to do , kuru= to come, aru=to be (inanimate objects), iru=to be (animate objects). You could really make a bunch of vids just explaining uses and conjugations of irregular verbs though so I can't go into it in detail here.

[forgottenmemories21]

@andremartins4 (Continued.. lol) Anything with masu form is polite conjugation in the present and future. Desu is a verb in Japanese meaning is which is different from "masu" because "masu" is not a verb on it's own.

[andremartins4]

@forgottenmemories21 ok, i've got it. thanks .