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Originally Posted by GodForsakenSoul
I'm having trouble understanding conjugation.
Mainly, because i'm using My japanes coach, and while it's good for increasing vocabulary and writing, it's doing a HORRIBLE job with the transition to japanese.
It's explaining conjugation with Romaji characters.
Anyhow. It mentions these "bases". Seven of them in total.
Could anyone be so kind as to explain Conjugation using Bases instead of Romaji? i can't seem to find a pattern there.
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I've never heard of seven bases before.
The only equivalent I can think of in modern Japanese is the 5 levels of go-dan verbs, and that's not something you just explain.
Instead, you should just learn one conjugation at a time. As someone who has attempted to study classical Japanese by just memorizing all the verb endings at once, I have experience learning Japanese both ways, and I recommend just learning, for example, plain non-past form by itself.
Let me brainstorm the verb conjugations I know:
食べる plain non-past
食べたplain past
食べて te-form
食べよう volitional
食べない plain non-past negative
食べられる potential
食べられる passive
食べさせる causative
食べず zu-form
食べます polite non-past
食べまして polite te form
食べませんnegative past polite
食べました past polite
食べろ plain command form
食べぬ nu form
食べないで negative te-form
食べましょう polite volitional
There are probably a couple more. I just am getting yelled at by my fiancée: "You're on that site too long."