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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About This Book
About the Japanese Language
Word order and particles
Postpositions
Dropping pronouns
Verb morphology
Counters
Honorifics
Lesson 1: Sound It Out in Japanese!
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
1.1. Pronunciation
1.2. Rhythm
1.3. Syllables
1.4. Voicing
1.5. Vowels
1.6. Vowels in sequence
1.7. Consonants
1.8. Flapped r
1.9. Syllabic nasal
1.10. Accent
Lesson 2: What? Where? Who?
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
2.1. Nouns and pronouns
2.2. Prenouns
2.3. Place words (relative location)
2.4. Adjectival nouns
2.5. Untranslated English words
2.6. Particles
2.7. は wa
2.8. が ga
2.9. か ka
2.10. の no
2.11. に ni
2.12. Words meaning ‘is’
2.13. Inflected words
2.14. Dropping subject nouns
2.15. Words of relative reference and question words
2.16. Words for ‘restaurant’
2.17. Words for ‘toilet’
2.18. 何 nani/nan ‘what’
Lesson 3: Actions! Actions! Actions!
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
3.1. Time words (relative time expressions)
3.2. Nouns with and without particles
3.3. Particles から kara, まで made, and へ e
3.4. Particle ね ne
3.5. Particle で de
3.6. Particle を o
3.7. Particle と to, meaning ‘with’ and ‘and’
3.8. Expressions for accompaniment
3.9 Verbs, polite moods
3.10. Use of the gerund (or te-form)
3.11. Use of the imperfect, perfect, and tentative moods
3.12. Negatives
3.13. Words for ‘work’
3.14. Verbal nouns (…する …suru)
3.15. Going in vehicles
3.16. ‘As soon as’
Lesson 4: What’s the Weather Like?
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
4.1. Adjectives
4.2. Plain and polite forms
4.3. Shapes of the plain forms
4.4. Learning the forms
4.5. Irregular verbs
4.6. Adjectives and the copula
4.7. Uses of the plain imperfect and perfect
4.8. Uses of the infinitive
4.9. The plain negative
4.10. Particle も mo
4.11. Expressing the time of the event ‘when …’ (…と …to, …時 …toki, …間 …aida)
4.12 Particle から kara meaning ‘since’ and ‘because’
4.13. Multiple particles
4.14. こと koto
4.15. つもり tsumori
4.16. More adverbs
4.17. More gerund expressions
4.18. Gerund (te-form) + いる iru
4.19. あそぶ asobu
Lesson 5: Because It’s for Business
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
5.1. Modifiers
5.2. Modifier clauses made with adjectives
5.3. Modifier clauses made with a copula
5.4. Modifier clauses made with adjectival nouns
5.5. The noun の no
5.6 …の (ん)です …no (n) desu
5.7. Verb + でしょう deshō
5.8. …かね …ka ne
5.9. ので no de
5.10. のに no ni
5.11. Plain negative …ない …nai
5.12. Negative infinitive …ず …zu
5.13. Imperfect negative + de …ないで …nai de
5.14. はず hazu
5.15. ところ tokoro
5.16. Verbs for leaving
5.17. …前に …mae ni and …後で …ato de
5.18. まで made and うち uchi
5.19. Verbs meaning ‘know’
5.20. Talking a language
Lesson 6: Going Shopping Again?
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
6.1. Numerals and numbers
6.2. Other quantity words
6.3. Use of numbers and quantity words
6.4. Primary and secondary numerals
6.5. Primary numerals
6.6. Arithmetic
6.7. Counters
6.8. Sound changes
6.9. Secondary numerals
6.10. Secondary counters
6.11. Counting people
6.12. Counting birds
6.13. Counting days
6.14. Names of the months
6.15. Giving dates
6.16. Telling time
6.17. -ぐらい -gurai/-ごろ -goro
6.18. Particle や ya
6.19. など nado, なんか nanka
6.20. Particle か ka meaning ‘or’
6.21. Particles は wa and を o with いかがですか ikaga desu ka
6.22. ひとつ hitotsu
6.23. Only: -だけ -dake and -しか -shika
6.24. Approximate numbers
6.25. Fractions
6.26 Percentage
6.27. Multiples
6.28. -ずつ zutsu
6.29. ごとに goto ni, おきに oki ni
6.30. Stores that end in 屋 ya
Lesson 7: Have You Been in a Japanese House?
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
7.1. Quotations
7.2. と 言う to iu
7.3. The plain tentative
7.4. Tentative (volitional) + とする to suru
7.5. Noun + として to shite/にして ni shite
7.6. Gerund (te-form) + みる miru
7.7. Desideratives
7.8. Alternative questions
7.9. よう yō
7.10. Quoting requests
7.11. Particle よ yo
7.12. 見える mieru and 聞こえる kikoeru
7.13. Prenouns + に ni
7.14. Gerund (te-form) + ある aru
7.15. The noun 方 hō
7.16. Comparisons
7.17. Questions with comparisons
7.18. 一番 ichiban
7.19. -目 me (ordinal numbers)
7.20. Particle ほど hodo
7.21. なるほど naruhodo
7.22. -ばかり -bakari
7.23. まま mama
7.24. 同じ onaji
7.25. Clothing
Lesson 8: Let’s Keep in Touch!
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
8.1. Interrogatives + も mo or か ka
8.2. Gerund + も mo
8.3. Interrogative + gerund + も mo
8.4. The provisional mood (-れば -reba)
8.5. Obligation
8.6. Permission
8.7. Denial of permission = prohibition
8.8. Denial of obligation
8.9. Obligation, prohibition, permission: summary
8.10. Conditionals (forms) -たら/-だら -tara/-dara
8.11. Conditionals (uses)
8.12. Asking for advice
8.13. ‘Had better’
8.14. …さえ…sae
8.15. The explicit use of に ni
8.16. …ば…ほど… …ba…hodo ‘the more… the more…’
8.17. …し …shi
8.18. Correlative compounds
Lesson 9: Be Polite!
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
9.1. Status words: humble, neutral, exalted
9.2. Kinship terms
9.3. Other nouns
9.4. Honorific prefixes
9.5. Honorific suffixes for people’s names
9.6. Verbs: the honorific infinitive
9.7. Special honorific verbs
9.8. 申し上げる mōshiageru
9.9. Inflection of slightly irregular exalted verbs
9.10. Special inflections of -ます -masu
9.11. Use of humble verbs
9.12. Adjectives and adjectival nouns
9.13. Formation of the adjective honorific infinitive
9.14. Summary of honorific predicates
9.15. ござる gozaru
9.16. いらっしゃる irassharu
9.17. おいで oide
9.18. Verbs for giving and receiving
9.19. Favors
9.20. Requests
9.21. Answers to negative questions
9.22. The specific plural
Lesson 10: What Is Your Take on That?
Basic Sentences
Basic Vocabulary
Structure Notes:
10.1. Hearsay そうです sō desu
10.2. Bound form -そう(な) -sō (na) ‘appearance’
10.3. …らしい …rashii
10.4. Expressions meaning ‘like’
10.5. The alternative -たり/-だり -tari/-dari
10.6. …ながら …nagara
10.7. ある aru with people
10.8. …ことにする/…ことになる …koto ni suru/…koto ni naru
10.9. …しまうshimau and …おくoku
10.10. …わけ …wake
10.11. Double negatives
10.12. …に違いない …ni chigai nai
10.13. について ni tsuite and によって ni yotte
10.14. Causative, passive, and causative passive verbs
10.15. Use of the causative
10.16. Uses of the passive
10.17. Use of the causative passive
10.18. The potential
10.19. かもしれない ka mo shirenai
10.20. かしら ka shira
10.21. Desiderative verbs …たがる …tagaru
10.22. …ものです …mono desu
10.23. The plain imperative
Appendix I: Other Styles of Speech
Appendix II: Accent Patterns
Appendix III: Verb Forms (Selected)
Dictionary
Japanese—English
English—Japanese
Illustration and Photo Credits
List of Culture Notes
About Tuttle
Copyright Page
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