Japanese Verbs: Plain Form Conjugations (NOVERBER)

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[DaiHimi]

Hi, I am a little confused. When you are giving the negative class 2 verbs conjugations I thought those verb examples were class 1? eg ~tsu, ~ku, ~nu, ~mu, ~u?

I thought class 2 verbs end in ~eru or ~iru (with some exceptions)? How do we conjugate those?

Or am I being silly and misunderstanding something? Sorry if I am being stupid :(

[CultureQuirk]

@DaiHimi Sorry it took me a while to respond, I've been away from the internet! But you're totally right - my mistake! I accidentally flipped saying class one and two at the beginning. Everything else should still be correct, though, and I made an annotation as a note. Thanks for catching that!

[tomandrobbie]

Nice work on the vlog. keep up the good work. :)

[damon899]

Good and simple lesson!

For the curious, the -う sounds change to -わ for the negative because they once ended in ふ, which was simplified in modern Japanese to う... but the corresponding negative は became わ (even the は as particle is pronounced わ, which is another aspect of this simplification).

One doubt as a foreign learner of English... I always saw and used the negative form of verbs as 'not to X' instead of 'to not X', which I saw you use here. Am I wrong, or are both forms correct?