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Originally Posted by Ojamajoz
Yeah, I guess I wasn't clear enough.
What I meant was just anything that one adds to the end of a verb or adjective to change the meaning. Like conjugations.
For example, my Japanese teacher is teaching us how to write "to be able to do" forms of verbs. 食べられます、聞けます。<<like that.
Is there anywhere where I can find a list of things like that?
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I know there are a series of "501 verbs" books for many languages, and it will contain what you're looking for re verbs.
As far as actual conjugations, there aren't many.
formality:
polite
honorific
humble
tense:
past
て-form
conjunctive form
meaning change
imperative
volitional
passive
causative
causative-passive
potential
That's pretty close to all for verb endings. There are numerous combinations of verbs, so we can't really list all those (it's like asking for all possible suffixes in English—even me telling you wouldn't help you learn the language). Also, many of these will be done differently depending on what word you're talking about.
Typically you will have a formality choice, tense choice, and meaning choice for every verb. For example, 食べる as a polite, causative, past tense would be 食べさせました。 ([i] made [him] eat.)