Japanese Grammar : Lesson 1 ( Sentence Structure )

[@NipponCat]

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[@mariaconcepcionyasay6378]

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[@abstrxctionmusic]

ありがと ございました!

[@Tonyukuk1453]

Turkish and Japanese grammar are same btw 😃

[@khangphuong9755]

This is the most useful video about Japanese word order that I've been seeing since the last two months. ありがとうございます。

[@NipponCat]

こんにちは (konnichiwa) Khang Phurong, What a wonderful and motivating message! hontou ni arigatou ne! (Thank you very much!) *Please stay tuned for part two of this series coming out on the 25th of this month. (along with new series and a variety of lessons to come.) Thank you very much for stopping by to comment and I wish you best in your studies! Keep up the great work! Ganbatte ne! :)

[@HEROF3REKT]

NipponCat japanese sentense structure is pretty trippy to be honest,

[@animeandstuff5377]

so khang u learn Japanese its been 2 years

[@qsaethic8927]

@@animeandstuff5377 have you learned japanese? it's been a year.

[@yoshicooldj]

@@qsaethic8927 are you learning Japanese in 2020 too?

[@asura7941]

So that means yoda speaks normal in japanese dubs? Im confused

[@ateslaidjuicypur3679]

No, Yoda would probably speak in a SVO order so that he stands out.

[@digaddog6099]

Well, I think Yoda technically speaks osv. For instance, in the quote, "the greatest teacher, failure is." The greatest teacher is the object, failure is the subject, and is is the verb.

[@marconradruiz6064]

Confused he is.

[@wadesmith666]

He speaks in Japanese Romayji

[@indigoraptor]

yeah yoda speaks OSV, normal english people generally speak SVO, and from what i understand japanese is SOV.

[@firud468]

the thumbnail is a perfect interpretation of the difference between english and japanese grammar

[@operative8005]

hard to believe that 2016 was five years ago, yet this video is extremely helpful to me now for my classes.

[@Erthalni]

Almost 9 now...

[@lillyarts2]

Wait till you realize that 2016 is about to be 9 years in less than a month

[@chestercaasi5067]

This should have been the first thing to learn. Thanks for the video

[@skullotonin]

fun fact: my first sentence in japanese was self taught, and put together with vocab words. i worked very hard on putting this together, and it took me years to perfect, but here it is... わたしはあなたをたりべます。 watashi wa anata (w)o tabemasu. this sentence means... "i will eat you."

[@Badgyalesso]

🤣 omg good job! がんばって 👏🏽

[@mariaflores202]

Beautiful sentence

[@naylie9657]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SirusStarTV]

You put unnecessary RI in ta..bemasu

[@david2869]

One of my first sentences was a useful one: "Boku no Nihongo masui desu" which means "My Japanese is bad" or more literally, "My Japanese tastes bad". Which somewhat makes sense because there really isn't a word that just means "bad" in Japanese (if something tastes or smells or bad it's "masui", and if a person is evil it's "warui"). And since language comes out of your mouth, bad language would taste bad. Plus since the sentence isn't exactly correct, it infers that my Japanese is bad.

[@IamFastwalker]

I totally agree, this is extremely useful, clear, concise and well edited! Thank you for getting me one step closer to my goal ✌🏼😊

[@NipponCat]

To the user "Leaf in Still Water" gomen ne (sorry) I accidentally deleted your comment. In case you read this message, below is my response to your comment: ------------------- Aww, thank you Leaf in the Still Water. Cats sure are precious and cute

[@Raze_134]

Not knowing a thing about Japanese grammar, I found this very educational and well made. when will the next part come out? (I really want to learn about those particles!)

[@animeandstuff5377]

uk cap now its been 2 years

[@slicer2938]

@@animeandstuff5377 unlucky this was actually good but hasnt uploaded or updated website in over a year

[@animeandstuff5377]

@@slicer2938 a yes i see anime has brought u here- lol learning a diff language rn schools killing me , even now as i go on youtube to cram for a test in 8 hours -its 12 am

[@evilcanofdrpepper]

Has anyone found another channel that teaches Japanese as well as this one does and from a western perspective?As soon as I learn Japanese I can start watching the original versions of anime so I can get the full understanding of what is going on. Anime always has scuh crazy plots and concepts that are not based in reality that you can't just figure it out based only on what you see going on with actions postures and facial gestures. This will give me hundreds more shows to watch so I will never have to leave my mother's basement! Also big ups to Safeway's grocery delivery! Yall should try it some time, good luck learning the language too!

[@aegxn5666]

@@evilcanofdrpepper i am learning from japanesepod101... they even have a free website with extremely useful audio recordings of dialouges and so on... I highly recommend visiting their website And their channel is really good especially since the host is really nice and explains everything in a very calm and fun way

[@anitaramani5584]

I started learning Japanese four months ago and have been watching countless videos to help me understand. This video is by far one of the best ones I have seen! I subscribed immediately, thank you so much. Your content is extremely clear with no extra fluff. Looking forward to more videos :)

[@cxlappsed1548]

How is your Japanese level now

[@bomkaiplow3900]

this literally cleared up to much to me and is extremely helpful. thank you so much!

[@McMeowalot]

I'm so glad this takes you back to basic English grammar. As someone who hasn't been in school for a while, it was a good refresher in order to help connect english with a different language.

[@abigaillep3618]

I was right about Yoda. I always knew he was special

[@deltafire12]

VARY special

[@МузайянаАхмаджонова]

you're a God of language teaching!!! I couldn't find a more precise video for Japanese grammar!!!

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

Japanese sentence structure is very similar to Urdu/Hindi. I love your explainations very straightforward.

[@taman68cv]

Truee

[@jongdonglu]

Thank you for the great lesson. i feel dumb because over the years i forgot what nouns, verbs etc was i just use them without thinking about it so this served as a great refresher and provided an amazing comparrison between grammers.

[@JishinimaTidehoshi]

I immediately hit that subscribe button after the Napoleon Dynamite clip! Anyway, this is a great grammar video :)

[@NipponCat]

Thank you Samurai Sakura for subscribing! I am happy to hear you enjoyed the lesson. Please stay tuned in for more lessons coming soon : ) Doumo arigatou ne!

[@neillogan6166]

先生, ありがとう。Your teaching method for this video was excellent. Clear, concise, and easy to understand. 😁

[@papyrusm]

Perfect introduction to basic structures for beginners, thank you!

[@nakura9739]

Your videos are very informative and the way you break things down and explain each different topic are great. I can't wait to learn more

[@SnakeEater004]

This was a very helpful lesson!! Thanks for making it you explained it really well and helped me a lot with my Japanese studies.

[@myxomatosisity9977]

I wish you had more videos. I want to understand the particles.

[@kenkho1443]

So basically we just have to yodalize everything and we’re good...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@deltafire12]

Pretty much.

[@digaddog6099]

Not exactly, since yoda speaks in osv, not sov

[@diabl2master]

@@digaddog6099 TRUE

[@toadalthug4055]

this analogy of how yoda speaks made me understand japanese even more! i love star wars

[@MikaumiKibo]

This actually makes Japanese so much easier to learn

[@rik-keymusic160]

Very good teacher here !!! ❤ ありがと

[@fragr33f74]

This is such a beautifully simple and well-explained video. Thanks!

[@blackattack1840]

Learning this takes my space samurai understanding of Star Wars to a whole new level. They went DEEP with this!

[@Goofy_Clown]

This made learning Japanese so much easier now all I have to do is learn the words and fill in the blanks

[@luisaguilar5343]

This was amazing. The comparison with English structure was really really helpful!

[@jovidmtp]

ありがとうございます! I am learning Japanese, and this helps a lot! Thank you!

[@ezzy-y7o]

This really helped alot! ありがとうございます！

[@XEN0CRACY]

*finally finds a decent video about sentence structure* *video ends* cool let's start the playlist... Oh.

[@kosherre6243]

I never thought I'd see Napoleon Dynamite in a Japanese lesson, but its presence is well received.

[@sapphire3051]

Alas, if only the series continued; this video was the quite excellently make and help me start understanding Japanese better for my classes which I have been struggling with.

[@prakharverma6361]

This video is as good as the thumbnail. This was so easy to understand. Thank you so much!

[@violateeve7338]

Now that make sense, after learning a few words and sentence in japanese and now I figure out the point of that. Thank you soo much

[@Mediocre_Comments]

This is a really good video ありがとう😊

[@CastielLaAngel]

Is that thankyou?

[@CastielLaAngel]

Sorry I'm new:3

[@Mediocre_Comments]

toxic_snow 12 yes!

[@CastielLaAngel]

@@Mediocre_Comments oh thanks 😊

[@Bleu_2ay]

Oh my goodness. This was perfect. Exactly what I needed. Thank you, I will watch more now👽

[@indago5032]

This video made the sentence structure relevantly simple! Thanks!

[@NipponCat]

Hi Thundercatbass, I'm happy the video helped you. Thank you for watching!

[@rubyp6451]

ooh!! I had inferred from my brother's teaching that the sentence structure was something like that, but I hadn't seen it put to words in a way that makes sense before! Yippie!

[@7x486]

I have been struggling a lot with this, thank you!

[@hendibrahim1135]

This was really helpful I wish she kept posting I really need it

[@stxphaniee8255]

ありがとう😊先生！I was so confused on how to form sentenced

[@noperope325]

These are the best videos I have seen on KZbin. No assumed knowledge, you backed up to reminders of what nouns and stuff were, you aren't going too fast, entertaining without being distracting. Thank you so much for doing these. My finals will thank you too XD

[@toastedsock]

So… i just had to speak like yoda?!?

[@burglh]

OH GOD WHY DID NIPPONCAT STOP 😭 THAT WAS SO USEFUL

[@coffae39]

ikr

[@What-yl6yl]

How is your Japanese going

[@burglh]

@@What-yl6yl oh hey haha , not very well actually cuz I had to stop for months

[@What-yl6yl]

@@burglh would you say you could speak with people? When you were studying og course

[@burglh]

@@What-yl6yl yes! I mean a very little but I could !

[@glennesbenarrosh6101]

Thank you very much! I've been wanting to learn japanese, but this difference was getting me totally confuse. Now, I at least feel more confident to keep learning this beautiful language

[@fury3026]

Thank goodness I wasn’t the only one one who thought Japanese grammar sounded like Yoda

[@nightwind9]

thank you, this help me tremendously. Finally I can have visual of the difference between the grammar.

[@thecheddarshredder]

GIRLLL!!!! We need more from this series!!!!!

[@trix3042]

you don't know how much this helped me! I only found videos that would just translate sentences but I still didn't understand.. nbut now I do!

[@kaelynn8702]

thank you !!!! you explained it so well to me, ive been for some reason struggling with the japanese sentence structures.

[@maigematthews5620]

Awesome content! 🎉 Please may you help me please? 🙏 I want to practice my Japanese romaji sentence structure only, to build it up. 🧱 Do you know any workbooks, game apps, videos that I can purchase, that only focuses on using romaji to build your sentence structure knowledge? 📝 For now, I just want to speak, converse, and read romaji romanized words. Thank you so much! ♥

[@ElliotKwan]

Wow!!! This is amazing!! Yoda analogy blew my mind

[@frasier_phantom8072]

This is really good, it helped me out a lot. Thanks

[@ateslaidjuicypur3679]

指導、ありがとうございます。

[@christiangab1227]

Thank you for sharing how to make basic Japanese sentence you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^

[@yolenecore]

ありがとうございます this was very helpful

[@justinwhaley1288]

That is exactly what I need work on😅

[@Anonymous-wi6ig]

Can someone explain why they choose to use SOV versus SVO?

[@Seth34864]

先生ありがとうございます。

[@MystWalkur]

Your video is extraordinarily well done! It's quality is far beyond over half of my college courses (😭 US school system is awful, rip my wallet) I'm so sad that this is your only grammar video

[@orionandacrylics5684]

Wow this was amazing, the first video I've watched that held my attention the entire time

[@yanetvaldivia8033]

This helped me so much, thank you!! I''m kind of struggling with this because my teachers never taught me this...

[@allencomer1437]

Really this video deserves a million views!!! Arigatoo!!!!

[@Youtyubah]

Thank you more of this please !

[@HeracIeid]

1. Subject always first 2. Verb always last Is it really that simple??? EDIT: ok I saw the end, so it's not necessarily that simple in every case, but wow what an incredibly straightforward start! I already feel like this won't be difficult! Thank you! I'm excited!

[@YorCemil]

I'm a beginner and it's sooo helpful thank you so much! subscribed you!

[@nathanalford-tate5050]

This was an awesome video I wish there were more of these on sentence structure.

[@Moxxedm]

So helpful thank you!!!

[@monicaware3955]

Looking for a video like this for a while, really helpful! Thanks!

[@NipponCat]

Konnichiwa Monica, Glad you found the lesson useful. Thanks for stopping by to comment. Good luck in your studies! 😊

[@ldgaming4213]

ありがとうございます!

[@Rob-yu6tk]

good video i was confused at first but now i understand thank you.

[@music2urbrain]

Thanks so much for this. I learned a lot.

[@bude8234]

Welcome back! OK, here goes my confusion with "desu". In "kawaii neko desu", is desu really acting like a verb here (is), or is it just the copula making the sentence more polite? One could just say "kawaii neko" to mean the same thing (cute cat)? Thanks.

[@NipponCat]

Hi my loyal viewer Bud E. Thank you for your comment. I am happy to be back. To answer your question, -Desu is considered to be a copula, in easier terms, Desu is considered to be a verb, in specific a "linking verb" meaning "IS" So in the following sentence "desu" is serving two functions: kawaii neko desu.

[@BlessxBlessx]

This is sooooo helpful and made things easier to understand ty so much

[@spiderdude2099]

7:00 In most English classes, they still would consider “teacher” in the sentence “he is a teacher” as the object of the sentence. The direct object in English is simply something that either has the action of the verb done to it by the subject, but it can also be a state of being. For example, most English lessons would categorize the word “cute” in the sentence “the cat is cute” as the direct object. I understand the distinction you have made, but in many English classes at least in America, no distinction is made between direct objects that are nouns receiving action and adjectives/adverbs that indicate states of being. They are all under the umbrella term of “direct object”

[@diabl2master]

It seems like "Subject Verb Noun" is one case of the "Subject Verb Object" case... the noun forms the object of the sentence... After all, in your "I eat apples" example, apples (the object) is indeed a noun as well.

[@rjmb4687]

Very Useful video. I'm studying japanese language right now Im really confused with particles and past tenses and negatives. subscribing!

[@beth1849]

Arigato gosaimasu, this helped me a lot!

[@m.cals3y]

thank you

[@ei-on4eb]

本当ありがとう！

[@kookiegirl1606]

ありがとうございました

[@AdamPhillipsALT]

as per the thumbnail, Japanese does not have the expletive 'it' or 'there.' They are functional items unlike content items. The literature suggests that lack of exposure to such a syntactic property at a young age (or under a critical age, see Critical Age Hypothesis) makes it very difficult to acquire as an adult. Thus being one of many reasons why the Japanese find it difficult to acquire the use of it/ there as it isn't taught in elementary schools (at least of 2020) and is difficult to acquire linguistically (although it can be obtained as a skill). In short, "cat it is" is not a literal translation.

[@sugarjuice9459]

this was so helpful 🥺

[@zcmation7169]

It is similar to hindi my god i can learn Japanese with same sentence sequence...❤

[@marrionlibrando5413]

I should have probably started here. I learned about state of being/topic particles before this.

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

ようこそ Today i learn one word meaning welcome

[@Brunowerther]

yeah, in Portuguese the subject, verb and object can appear anywhere, although most of the times it is like English

[@Chippyeater]

I’m still waiting for the ga and wa lesson

[@iAmCoded]

I'm growing old just waiting for that lesson

[@xiao130]

very helpful

[@vishakhasharma2754]

The best way I have ever seen arigatougozaimasu

[@PeterMasalski93]

I have always though about it.. when they watch Yoda in Japanese, does he speak in the English order ?

[@OutcastYBJ]

I don’t think so I think they make it so it’s to their understanding they do the same with anime they completely change the word order so an English person can understand it

[@eduardomonteiro6863]

Woow what a great lesson!

[@Altwqter_]

ありがとう ございます せんせい

[@penguinqueen1462]

I was just telling my husband how Japanese sentence structure reminded me of how Yoda talks and then I saw the thumbnail!

[@that0negurl559]

かれなん ほおるけれましたか He kicked what ball? Did I do that right? Please inform me if I did/did not

[@hallowedt]

easy way to think of it is subject goes first verb goes last and practically anything else goes in the center