Learn Japanese Adjectives and Grammar : How to Learn the Japanese Adjective Order

[henrytakeover]

her: his heavy, thick...

me: what?

her: ...book

me: oh oh, continue

[CrapaccinoMan1]

---About: "If it doesn't end in '-i,' chances are it's not an adjective."

One problem: there is a plethora of adjectives in Japanese, namely, "na," "taru," etc., which do not end in "-i." A little misleading to the novice learner; perhaps a lack of actual comprehension from the makers of the video? Not trying to be rude, but little things like that can cloud a person's head.

[cutespitzy]

Ohayou!, Hajimemashte Anatawa Sugoi Desu! Nihongo Ga Suki :)

Arigato!

[taiyokamuri]

@cutespitzy ohhh, i was going to say something like that but thats okay.

[TheGoldenlegend1]

*looks for how to videos, clicks on a video, sees that it's from how to videos

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOT THAT AGAIN

[crimsonblad5]

That is wrong? shouldn't it be 私の新しくて長くて白いドレス

[roygbiv330]

@crimsonblad5 not wrong. the one on the board is correct and natural. your example is grammatically correct, but not natural because of the continuation of /te/s. 1st and 2nd adjectives out of 3 have /te/s. it sounds redundant. i dare to say, on a matter of my feeling, that you can terminate those 2 adjectives with /ku/s like " atarashiku, nagaku, shiroi dress."

[crimsonblad5]

@roygbiv330 I just don't find it natural. >.>

i've never heard when listing adjectives without くて and even sometimes just く。　well at least from exp.

[roygbiv330]

@crimsonblad5 a modifying phrase which modifies dress consists of 4 parts (watashino, atarashikute, nagakute and shiroi). "atarashikute" comprises an adjective /atarashiku/ and a particle /te/. a /te/ is located just after an adjective or a verb and gives the adjective/verb the meaning parallel or addition. 1 phrase includes 2 /te/s, which causes nuance duplicatation.

[dminky]

@crimsonblad5

-くて is similar to using "and" to form a compound sentence.

"My dress is new and long and white" would be "私のドレスは新しくて、長くて、白いです"

"My new long white dress" is just a phrase and not a complete sentence, so you don't need to worry about the -くて ending. Listing the adjectives like in the video is a better translation.

[crimsonblad5]

@dminky thanks for clearing that up for me, thats where I got the confusion

[marilynmanson60]

wait wait wait, i thought atsui meant hot? Is it hot and heavy?

[Ellesmerae]

@marilynmanson60 As far as I know, atsui means hot, thick, deep, strong AND heavy, depending on which kanji you use to spell it.

[ChibiAlly]

Japanese adjectives end with い huh? Not all Japanese adjectives end with い.

What about all the な adjectives?

げんきな　ハンサムな

すきな　しずかな

だいすきな　ひもな

[robertsrashad]

I thought, and I'm sure of this, you have to say "WATASHINO ATARASHIKUTE NAGAKUTE SHIROI DORESU when you have a list of adj.

[Unicornzilla]

can you also say...

watashi no nagai shiroi atarashii doresu?

basically, can you mix up the adjectives??

[HancockUploads]

@LostBlossom Your completely right. This video is IMO very misleading since not only would you write adjectives like that but you wouldn't even speak them like that in most cases:/ adjectives preceding other adjectives get their "i" replaced with "kute" or their "na" replaced with "de"

[RisingSun011]

@HancockUploads actally adjectives drop their “i" if its ONLY two adj or if putting it in the te form.

[signupsigma]

if i can speak japanese this month / year, then i will tell everyone i learned from you

[LostBlossom]

By the way: "To use more than one i-adjective, you have to change the final "i" of all but the last adjective to "kute". For na-adjectives, add "de" where "na" would come. "

So "watashi no atarashikute nagakute shiroi doresu" would be grammatically more correct, I believe. But tell me if I'm wrong!

[BLUEBOY1341]

AWay from her u hage!!! she is mine or else

[avidreader100]

On comments related to adjectives ending with 'E'. The problem is with the caption. 'i' is pronounced as stand alone 'e' in Japanese. As in inn, improvement etc. The caption should have indicated 'i' instead of 'e'. That is the error. All Japanese adjectives end with 'ai', 'ii', 'oi', 'ui', but not 'ei'. They have two vowels at the end. Foreign adjectives have the last two letters as a consonant followed by a vowel or end with 'ei'. The foreign adjectives are used with the particle 'na'.

[MrCooCoo4CoCoPuffs]

his heavy, thick what?

[paulsky1]

*bows* ありがと　ございます (thankyou very much) very informative

[siegfried1x2]

do you have a boyfriend o-o............?

[shortshortdi]

@siegfried1x2 lolol

[iceymanjack]

some people say that NOT all adjectives ends with an E but i think she knows that less than 10% or more less ends with another vowel

shes just trying to give you more confidence so that you can learn japanese more easier

so dont say bad things about her

shes sooo hot!!!

[CharlotteMadison]

You explain in a great way :3

[emma0able]

nee !! just remember that you add "no" after the 'one' who possesses something ... just like if i will say "my dog" -"watashi no inu" or "your dog" -"anata no inu" or "their dog" -"karera no inu" or "our dog" -"Watashitachi no inu" ..... sou da ne !! jaa ........

[Alexanadu]

or you can attach someone's "title" to their name with "no" likeso: this is my sister, yuki = kocchi wa kyodai no yuki-chan desu.

[fh1mahfanzai]

so ALL adj are ending with "i"? thats something useful to know

[ainarielhime]

@fh1mahfanzaia actually this is not a very good video in my opinion. NOT all adjectives end in i! there are also ones that end with na, and have different conjugations, but are nevertheless adjectives! also, im sorry but i have lots of jp friends and have lived in japan, and they dnt talk like that, listing loads of adjectives... it sounds weird :S trust me, if u start saying a long list of adjectives like that to describe your new dress,jp ppl will be like err ok at least hes trying XD

[Yigo91193]

hey tahts true that explains why i ran into chiisana and it meant little xP

[pointeprincess302]

omg i wish i was in her class in real life, she is such a good teacher

[arylovesrock]

what's the difference between watashino and kareno?

[pointeprincess302]

watashi no is my and kare no is his

[arylovesrock]

ohh thanks!

[GhostInTheShell09]

doresu... ... loanword?

[keatonguy]

is watashino a standard word for "my" or is it the feminine equivalent?

[budafliiez]

standard politeness for both female and male

boku-no and ore-no would be casual male 'my'

[noodleface123456]

your hot

[AdamFitri1]

How do you said "You" in Japanese?

[iamdattebayo]

anata :)

[oilpp123]

anata

[botsawana]

you can say Anata or Kimi or Anta or Omae or Teme ... and so on :D

[Soundfrequency]

Anata, ima (I think), and sochira

[darkchakra123]

anata

[klebehss]

at 1:14 I thought she said Dick in case of thick!! His heavy Dick !!! LOL !!

[ryuinz]

Its sort of fair to say that these sentences are similar to their english counterparts, except that they are missing the closing grammer. Desu, da, or other 'to be' verbs are typically required at the end, unless you are speaking pretty low form japanese

[Userguape]

i am 100% mexican, and i want to be a trilingual. i can speak english and spanish but i also want to learn japanese, please help, i will appreciate so much. 5/5 nice

[seage12]

I need help! Im 100% japanese but i lived all my life in australia. so in other words i can speak japanese for shit. My aunty is coming in 3 days and expects me to Speak Japanese. PLEASE HELP! what do i do : (

[bafciQ]

regards to your auntie! xD

[klebehss]

kill yourself !! hurry up !!

[cyberboi504]

hahahaha!! nice.. he had to commit suicide!! haha!

[kawaikurokuma]

eehhh????wakarimasen!!!! HELP!

[larok21]

can you use the word wanpisu for dress?

[ItsudemoAibon]

ONLY if it's a one-piece dress! :)

[scorpjKe]

There's two types of adjectives:

1. -i advectives (always end with i)

2. -na adjectives (can end with na or any other kana, but if there's a noun or smth else after it)

For example:

Ano shoujo wa shinsetsu - That girl is good

Ano shinsetsu NA shoujo wa se ga takai - That beautiful girl is tall

[maripili8793]

it's true all adjetives end with i??

[superstar020]

This is informative. I like it. I wish I could subscribe to just Yuu-san and not the entire expert village. Some of the other 'experts' are fools.

[tigernov6]

some adjectives end with na.

[ZarathustraEX]

Waitta sec.Gotta try this.

Kyou wa manga o tsukutta.Ichi juu ni peeju datta.Hontou ni ureshii na!

[Ulrock7777]

Doesn't this only work for "i" adjectives?

[darkchocolateiscool]

so if i wan tto say is that new?

it will be something like "sore wa atarashii desu ka? :|

[Sonickrazy]

Yes! A gold star for you!

[AnarchyInBlood]

no you say it like this :"ARE wa atarashii desu ka?" becouse sore is "it" an are is "that"

[JaeHo2JaeMinLuvBoth4]

Oo nga. *thumbs up*

[ytgfy]

watashi no nagai atsui shiroi chimpo wo shabutte, nechan.

[chosenone234]

can someone translate for me

[ryuzakilawlight]

so for subjects watashino is always used for saying my/mine like my ...something is watashino...whatever and watashino is always used for the partile ,my,?

[BlanFan2O]

yeah, just replace "wa" with "no". no is like saying "of" in some cases but it's better just to remember that it shows possession.

[TheFearOfOne]

dude this is great im learning filipino atm and japanese seems more free verse like english, diggin it dude

[Deadpool601]

demo, "watashii no atarashikute, nagakute, shiroi doresu" mo ii desu yo.

And they don't all end with i.

[HarukaDream]

all your doing is adding kute..the root still ends with i

[Deadpool601]

??? Nigiyaka, hima, hansomu, etc... don't end with i. And adding kute/de connects the adjectives grammatically.

[grasshopper01031967]

I believe it should be nigiyakana, himana and hansamuna ,which are so called na-adjectives:)

But you are right with the te-form to connect the adjectives.

The conjugation of i-adjectives and na-adjectives is different as you probably know, so I think it is helpful to remember them.

[freddie1vanillie]

this is truly great, thanks for the video im learning great

[mykel2501]

These videos would help a lot more if they where in some kind of order. You know if video 1 was lesson 1. The way they have it posted you have no idea what part of the lesson you are doing. So you may be doing lesson 3 in one video and the very next video your doing lesson 25. How can you learn anything like that. This is not a comment against the teacher she is good. It's against the order in which the vid's where posted.

[signupsigma]

@mykel2501 have you enjoyed pornograpghy

[Solym59032]

I've been studying japanese at the university... should you use -te forms when using multiple adjectives?

not chiisai aoi kuruma but chiisakute aoi kuruma

[illumis]

Conjugation of -kute for i-adjectives and -de for na-adjectives might be grammatically more correct, but I guess that is not the goal for this video yet.

Combining verb and adjectives are typically learnt after around 70 hours of class lesson.

Using the way she teaches will still allow one to be understood by the Japanese :)

[IKEsZONE]

this is great!!!!

[IreneWit]

I really like this! it's so usefull but I coulnd't help but laugh at the "his heavy... thick.... BOOK"-part

[FunkyEmoPunky]

but if i wanna say " cute dress "

i need to say " kawaii doresu "

or " doresu kawaii " ?

[o0AmI0o]

kawaii doresu ^^!

[AlwaysAmiYumi]

LMFAO 1:17 look at her facial expression, shes like "Did they buy it? I think they did."

[locoln]

あなた可愛い

[12jkfjdsafjsd]

はい

かのじょは　とても　かわいい　だいよ。

[locoln]

はい

[RavenDolph8]

Haha def agree with that.

[TheSplashLog]

はい、とても真

[hitmonlee00]

his heavy thick DICK!!

she was going to say that!!!

[TheP1x3l]

Suteki! Arigatou gozaimasu !

Sugoi ne?

[bawad]

"His heavy think...uh...book!" hahahaha

[bawad]

I mean "thick".

[seraphinapandora]

LOL. I thought the saaaaame thing.

[AquaFight]

i noticed that too. lul

[fluxeffect]

wtf lil bit of false info...not all adjectives end wit "i" sum end wit "na"

[bumnumba1]

Actually the adjectives don't end with na. Na is tacked on the end of "na-adjectives" when they preceed a noun and they conjugate differently. Example: baka is a "na adjective." Anata wa baka na hito desu. Also this poster unfortuantly doesn't answer comments because she's part of expert village and is paid to do these lessons (A lot actully) If you want free Japanese lessons with comments you should check out mine.

[FelineFantsy]

'watashi no atarashii chiisai aoi kuruma' lolz, I hope that makes since.

[coushcrew]

"My new ? blue car" does chiisai mean small? is the sentence "My new small blue car"?

[FelineFantsy]

I forgot I responded to this vid, yeah Chiisai means small.

[forbiddenhill]

Watashi = I,Me,Myself (Polite)

Boku = I,Me,Myself (Informal-Men Only)

Atashi = I,Me,Myself (Informal-Women Only)

Ore = I,Me,Myself (Ego,Slightly Rude)

Watakushi = I,Me,Myself (Very Formal & Polite)

Add 'No' On The End To Make Them Mean 'My,Mine'

[avengesevenfold1]

what does watashi wa mean?

[midiland20]

watashi means I....the word "wa" is only a particle word that added in sentence....you can use any subject and add wa to it for a complete subject...for example, I am cute..it translate to "Watashi wa Kawaii desu"... or Chopper is cute..it translates to "Chopper-san wa Kawaii desu"..

[geijutsu757]

nihongo wa kotoshi gakumon desu means - studying japanese this year

[AsianBejb6]

arigato watashono daisuki ni hon<3<3

[TenaciousD230]

this is sweet

[ssmiley91]

Gorgeous girl makes the learning easy :) His heavy, thick what?

[makaidog]

book dude...BOOK

[AlwaysAmiYumi]

LMAO!

[AlwaysAmiYumi]

Whoops that was for the wrong video, but thanx for the video though It helped alot!

[authentictony]

面白いだた？どう？

[KayeMaz]

arigato gozaimasu. Watashi ni nihongo wa kotoshi gakumon desu. I never knew that simple rule!? Funny I never noticed.

[Shiona189]

Eh, actually, there are many adjectives that don`t end in "i". ;_; It`d be simplier if there weren`t, right? Like... Ah,I won`t have space to explain it all, but I`ll try. "Shizuka" (quiet). The dog is quiet is "inu wa shizuka desu." Here, the Adj is after the noun. But! You must add "na" after the Adj. if you use it BEFORE the noun. This is a quiet dog. "Kore wa shizukana inu desu."

[trishlim08]

can you speak in japanese fluently..if you are can you please teach me..I beg you:)

[Shiona189]

Japanese also use a lot of English words. If they use a word from English, like handsome, then it would be treated at one of these "na" verbs.

This is a handsome dog. (Yes, I know it sounds weird. Work with me.)

"Kore wa hansamu-na inu desu."

This dog is handsome.

"Kono inu wa hansamu desu."

^.^; Sorry for rambling on like this. Ee, I hope I don`t sound like a know-it-all.. God knows I`m not an expert on the language. D=

Thank you so much for posting this video!

[Shiona189]

Japanese also use a lot of English words. If they use a word from English, like handsome, then it would be treated at one of these "na" verbs.

This is a handsome dog. (Yes, I know it sounds weird. Work with me.)

"Kore wa hansamu-na inu desu."

This dog is handsome.

"Kono inu wa hansamu desu."

^.^; Sorry for rambling on like this. Ee, I hope I don`t sound like a know-it-all.. God knows I`m not an expert on the language. D=

Thank you so much for posting this video!

[trishlim08]

what is Watashi ni nihongo wa kotoshi gakumon desu? cause I can't understand it:) thank you!!!

[Christenmarie81]

These lessons are SO helpful!

[misstokyo1994]

thanks!