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[grammar rush]


I'm going to rush through a grammar guide. One chapter per day. One journal entry on Lang-8 per chapter.


Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese > Grammar Guide


date

topic

2013-10-05

Expressing State-of-Being

2013-10-06

Introduction to Particles (は、も、が)

2013-10-07

Adjectives

2013-10-08

Verb Basics

Negative Verbs

Past Tense

2013-10-09

Particles used with verbs (を、に、へ、で)

2013-10-10

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

2013-10-11

Descriptive Relative Clauses and Sentence Order

2013-10-12

Noun-related Particles (と、や、とか、の)

2013-10-13

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2013-10-14

Adverbs and Sentence-ending particles

2013-10-15

Polite Form and Verb Stems (~です、~ます)

2013-10-16

Addressing People

2013-10-17

The Question Marker (か)

2013-10-18

Compound Sentences (て-form、から、ので、のに、が、けど、し、~たりする)

2013-10-19

Other uses of the te-form (~ている、~てある、~ておく、~ていく、~てくる)

2013-10-20

Potential Form

2013-10-21

Using する and なる with the に particle (~[よう]になる/する)

2013-10-22

Conditionals (と、なら、ば、たら)

2013-10-23

Expressing "must" or "have to" (~だめ、~いけない、~ならない、~ても)

2013-10-24

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2013-10-25

Desire and Suggestions (たい、欲しい、volitional、~たらどう)

2013-10-26

Performing an action on a relative clause (と、って)

2013-10-27

Defining and Describing (という)

2013-10-28

Trying something out or attempting to do something (~てみる、volitional+とする)

2013-10-29

Giving and Receiving (あげる、やる、くれる、もらう)

2013-10-30

Making requests (~ください、~ちょうだい、~なさい、command form)

2013-10-31

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2013-11-01

Numbers and Counting

2013-11-02

Casual Patterns and Slang

2013-11-03

Review and more sentence-ending particles

2013-11-04

Causative and Passive Verbs

2013-11-05

Honorific and Humble Forms

2013-11-06

Things that happen unintentionally (~てしまう、~ちゃう/~じゃう)

2013-11-07

Special expressions with generic nouns (こと、ところ、もの)

2013-11-08

Expressing various levels of certainty (かもしれない、でしょう、だろう)

2013-11-09

Expressing amounts (だけ、のみ、しか、ばかり、すぎる、Amount+も、ほど、さ)

2013-11-10

Various ways to express similarity and hearsay (よう、~みたい、~そう、~そうだ、~らしい、~っぽい)

2013-11-11

Using 方 and よる for comparisons and other functions (より、の方、stem+方、によって、によると)

2013-11-12

Saying something is easy or difficult to do (~やすい、~にくい)

2013-11-13

More negative verbs (ないで、ず、~ん、ぬ)

2013-11-14

Hypothesizing and Concluding (わけ、~とする)

2013-11-15

Expressing time-specific actions (ばかり、とたんに、ながら、まくる)

2013-11-16

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2013-11-17

Leaving something the way it is (まま、っぱなし)

2013-11-18

Formal Expressions (である、ではない)

2013-11-19

Things that should be a certain way (はず、べき、べく、べからず)

2013-11-20

Expressing the minimum expectation (でさえ、ですら、おろか)

2013-11-21

Showing signs of something (~がる、ばかり、~めく)

2013-11-22

Formal expressions of non-feasibility (~ざるを得ない、やむを得ない、~かねる)

2013-11-23

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2013-11-24

Tendencies (~がち、~つつ、きらいがある)

2013-11-25

Advanced Volitional (まい、であろう、かろう)

2013-11-26

Covered by something (だらけ、まみれ、ずくめ)

2013-11-27

Advanced proximity of actions (が早いか、や否や、そばから)

2013-11-28

Others (思いきや、がてら、あげく)