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User:LokiClock/Basic Japanese checklist

This is a personal copy of Appendix:1000 Japanese basic words made to help keep track of my vocabulary progress.

Legend:

  • M - Memorized
  • R - Review
  • W - Word (alone - memorized)
  • K - Kanji (alone - memorized)
  • 1 - Heard a few times
  • 2 - Distinctly familiar

Nouns edit

People edit

Body edit

Family edit

Life edit

Animals edit

Crops edit

Time & Space edit

Directions & Positions edit

Materials edit

Weights and Measures edit

Society edit

Man made objects edit

Home edit

Tools edit

Stationery edit

Clothes edit

Transport edit

Language edit

Colors edit

Others edit

Numbers edit

Abstract Nouns edit

Adjectives edit

Forms edit

Feelings edit

Verbs edit

Existence edit

Movement edit

Actions edit

Sensations edit

Speech edit

Work edit

Emotions edit

Activities edit

Adverbs edit

Pre-noun adjectival edit

Interjections edit

Conjunctions edit

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

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

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