miscellaneous notes

a b c

This page hasn't been started yet.  When it IS started, it will have things like a pronunciation guide and probably a chart of katakana and hiragana and maybe even a big graph of kanji. (sheesh, that last part sounds a little ambitious, doesn't it?)  Here's something to sate you, though.

Word Types (as indicated next to words in the Japanese->English Dictionary)

adj.       adjective

-na adj.   adjective used in sentences like a noun, but with the particle na

-ru v.     verb conjugated in -ru form

-u v.      verb conjugated in -u form

n.         noun

It's important to note that these classes of words do not necessarily indicate what word class the word class would fall into in English, it just demonstrates the way they're used in Japanese sentences.  JSL calls them 'nominals', 'adjectivals', and 'verbals', but I think that's overly complicated and unnecessary. 

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