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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
I've never heard of seven bases before.
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I got an old college textbook and it mention 7 bases as well. It basically uses the godan and creates a couple of extra ones to explain exceptions such as 言わない, which comes off a little bit different from the regular negative base.
This happens when textbooks try to teach students using kana, but explaining things with romaji. If you simply use kana, there would be no need whatsoever to divide so many bases. But it took me a couple of years to understand that too LOL.