Japanese Game い-Adjectives vs な-Adjectives
い-adjectives conjugate on their own (楽しい → 楽しくない → 楽しかった), while な-adjectives lean on だ/な/です the way a noun would (便利だ →...
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Japanese Game ～つもりです: Talking About Plans
Use つもりです for a decision you've made in your own head, 予定です once it's actually arranged with a date or booking, and つもりで...
Japanese Game Volitional Form: Let’s Do Something
Use ましょう when the plan's basically decided, ませんか when you're genuinely asking and want to leave room for "no," and ましょうか...
Japanese Game Potential Form: Saying What You Can Do
Use the short potential form (話せる, with が) in everyday speech, and switch to 〜ことができる (with を, unchanged) when the situat...
Learn Japanese ～ながら: Doing Two Things at Once
Use ながら only when one single person is doing two actions at the exact same time, and put the action you actually care ab...
Japanese Game ～たり～たり: Listing Actions
Use たり〜たりする when you're giving a couple of representative examples (implying there's more you're not saying) or describi...
Learn Japanese ～たことがあります: Talking About Experience
たことがあります means "I have experienced X before" with no specific time attached. The instant you name a date, a place-and-ti...
Japanese Game ～なければなりません: Saying You Have To
なければなりません literally means "if you don't do it, it won't be okay." That double negative adds up to "you must," and it shr...
Learn Japanese これ・それ・あれ: A Simple Guide
Pick これ if it's in your hands, それ if it's in theirs, and あれ if nobody's holding it right now — physical custody, not dis...
Learn Japanese です vs ます: What’s the Difference?
です attaches to nouns and adjectives, showing what something IS. ます attaches to verbs, showing what something DOES. They ...