Friday, November 16, 2007.
Verbs what??!!
Well, frankly I also don't know what that word means and I am not going to find out now. (-.-) Cos since I started threading in this unknown section of my Genki I book, I felt that I have lost in la-la land.
Anyway, I just crossed referenced Jasさん earlier entry about Verbs and I thought that I might as well add a little to it. She listed quite a handful of words there, so I have work cut out for me. (Jasさん, you are still a slave driver!)
When it comes to verbs, there are 2 major classes which they fall into.
(1) "ru"-verbs
(2) "u" - verbs
At this point, I can't tell which word listed by her falls into which class (no, not yet, but I will prevail!), so I will only identify those that I know now and KIV the rest.
(1) "ru"-verbs
たべる - taberu (to eat)
おきる -okiru (to get up)
ねる - neru (to sleep; go to sleep)
みる - miru (to see)
(2) "u" - verbs
いく - iku (to go)
かえる - kaeru (to go back; to return)
きく - kiku (to listen)
のむ- nomu (to drink)
はなす- hanasu (to speak; to talk)
よむ - yomu (to read)
It is essential to know which class the verbs fall into cos there are rules that apply when we convert them into tenses.
For the "ru"-verbs:
For the "ru"-verbs, we simply strip the "ru" and then add either "masu" or "mashita" or "masen" or "masen deshita" to it.
For the "u"-verbs:
For the "u"-verbs, it is slightly more tricky as it requires you to change the "u" into "i" before adding the corresponding parts to it.That's all for now, I'm sure that committing 10 verbs into memory is a good start!
~ Rene ~
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