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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster
Doesn't it make sense to just learn the dictionary forms and then just to conjugate them depending on what you want them to become.
I mean you you don't need to learn 食べる and 食べます separately. You just need to that it becomes the stem of ichidan verbs is removed in base 2 conjugations. There's no point learning everything separately when you can just learn the rules of verb conjugation. I mean there are only 2 irregular verbs in the language (3 if you count the partially irregular 行く) so there aren't many exceptions.
I mean I'm still a beginner at Japanese so I could be wrong. If I am then I am sorry. This is the way I've looked at it so far though and it has stopped me from running into a lot of the problems like the ones you have just mentioned so far.
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One is polite, and the other is "casual", that's why people tend to learn them separately. It's just like what I was saying with the stem of the verbs, just drop the ます and you're good to go for a lot of things --even getting the dictionary form.
But, I was taught that there are
four irregular verbs: ある、 行く、 来る、 and する.