【N5】Genki 1 Lesson 5 Japanese Grammar Made Clear | Japanese Adjectives

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learning the existence of shirako is the price i payed for such a wonderful class i guess it's fair

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read my name after that

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[@windworldwidespread2004]

*い Adjectives* 1:35 - Present Tense い Adjectives 1:58 - Present Tense Negative い Adjective (くない) 10:54 - Past Tense い Adjectives (かった) 11:18 - Past Tense Negative い Adjective (くなかった) *な Adjectives* 2:21 - Present Tense な Adjectives 2:26 - Pres. Tense Negative な Adjectives (じゃない) 12:13 - Past Tense な Adjectives (でした) 12:22 - Past Negative な Adjectives (じゃなかった)

[@BasedGatsby]

I've always stopped at this point of Genki because I didn't want to remember whole lists of る, う verbs. Then the killing blow was remembering い and な adjectives work conjugation. Thanks for explaining everything in an easy to digest way!

[@ToKiniAndy]

I'm happy to hear that it helped!

[@izziemcwilliam5105]

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[@Emot10ns]

I'm glad you mentioned the na-adjectives and kanji, while i-adjectives are so because they are a kanji with hiragana attached. None of it was explained in Genki, so I'm glad you mentioned it for people who want to know what is and isn't a i-adj.

[@ToKiniAndy]

Yeah, the description is woefully inadequate. I hope it was useful! Thank you for watching.

[@ychentt]

As someone who's learned German adjective declensions before, I gotta say Japanese has one of, if not, the easiest way of conjugating verbs and adjectives in the world. The agglunative nature of Japanese really does shine through here

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I know this is an old comment, but what children's shows did you watch?

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[@ToKiniAndy]

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[@anonisnoone6125]

I was having such a hard time trying to understand i and na adjectives, especially with the conjugation, but u made it so easy to understand. I'm so glad I came across ur grammar lessons. They really make everything so much easier to understand.

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38:36 ヘフィメタルがだいすきです！

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冬が近づいている-Winter is coming. Recently learned this word 近づく(ちかづく)。This usually used for if something is approaching or near.

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蛇が嫌いです。 きれいな音楽が好きです。 Thanks Andy

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I'm gonna be watching these videos and taking notes to refresh myself for my Japanese final. This video was really good and was a great refresher on the lessons

[@daemanuhr]

You got a good chuckle out of me at about 19:52 when you said the hot summer is coming, and that it reminded you of Game of Thrones. My N5-level brain quickly tried to come up with the words for "cold" and "winter". You said 寒い冬 right as I managed to think the words, so it was funny hearing you say it in the video as I was saying it in my mind.

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[@annettemorrissey8485]

Greetings from Australia. Another fabulous lesson and a great way to broaden my vocabulary. My aim is to travel back to Japan once C19 dies down. I hope to be able to stand in the Nihongo speakers taxi line at Kyoto train station instead of waiting forever in the English speakers line. I also checked out what shirako is - I saw pickled fish guts at the breakfast table and thought that was odd - for someone who loves vejemite!

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[@ToKiniAndy]

Thank you! I'm happy to hear that you are finding it useful. =)

[@gregsvoice5628]

This was a lot more straight forward than Genki lessons 3 & 4!

[@ToKiniAndy]

Indeed!

[@jackychen2953]

Another great lesson, thank you Andy!

[@ToKiniAndy]

Thank you for watching!

[@MiaDaFish]

I find the masu conjugation much easier than the い- and な- conjugation. The whole かった、くなかった、じゃない、じゃなかった、etc. is really hard to remember. Gonna have to repeat this a lot. Your explanation makes it much easier though. Here's my answer for this question: ロックが好きです。 (Just like the example answer! 😆)

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[@saraloberto7882]

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[@antonioo1817]

Thanks!! I understand the い and な adjectives now!

[@ToKiniAndy]

I'm glad to hear that Antonioo! Thank you for watching. =)

[@dominikseljan3043]

Great video as always Andy! Thanks for mentioning Shirako, it was a fun read

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Wish I knew of this two years ago before moving to Japan!

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[@Silver0Crow]

To anyone doing Genki (3rd edition) exercises, on page 143 in V-A point 5 exercise you're asked to make ましょう sentence out of 出かける. 出かける is it's own word, not でか mashed onto ける, So it's not -eru exception but ichidan instead. I just spent 30 minutes scratching my head why Genki cut out り from my -eru exception conjugation before I made this realization...

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Mcdonald stocks after this video 📉

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The little laughing in the background about the moss in moss burger was cute. Lol

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Thank you! I'm happy to hear that they are helping you out! Hopefully, the coming videos can continue to help you as well! Thank you for watching! 頑張ってください！=)

[@TodokanaiKoi]

Because of this video I watched a compilation of モスバーガー cms.

[@languages170]

Another great vídeo!

[@fallenzinnia2259]

So useful. Thanks.😊

[@gev_vol]

ロックも好きです。AC/DCが大好きですよ！

[@JackTse]

thanks, cleared this yesterday

[@greglocker2124]

I truly love the way Japanese takes in English words. Call me racist if you want, but it's HILARIOUS and so endearing. "Hahm - bah - gah" "Bi - gu - ma - cu" "Nu - zi - ra - n - do" "Bi - ru" I always wonder how French people felt when Americans bastardize words like "croissant", "baguette", "déjà vu", etc I always thought it would feel insulting but it's actually fascinating and highly entertaining. Just rambling for the algo...

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[@TheJoeisverycool123]

Realising English has counters is something I tell all my friends who complain about Japanese counters. If anything at least Japanese ones are vague enough to be useful in referring to objects of shapes :D

[@ayatsonyullah]

Nice work. quick upload for the (Audience Interaction REMOVED). Arigatou Gosaimasu.

[@coffeedude]

音楽が好きです makes more sense when translated as "music pleases me" because music is the subject of the sentence when looking at the が particle. Translating it as "I like music" confuses the topic with the actor

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Thanks

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Thank you so much Gery! I appreciate the support. =)

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マイケル・ジャクソンが好きです

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You're very welcome!

[@Name_less_youtube]

33:16 How did my brain translate 何でもない as “where and also no”

[@matteonator]

Thank you for providing us with these videos. I have a question about making suggestions. How would you describe the difference between レストランに　（ 行きましょうか or 行きませんか ) ? Is there a difference in tone with these two ways of asking someone to go to a restaurant?

[@ToKiniAndy]

You're welcome! 行きましょう is more like (shall we go?). It's much more casual and more of an actual question than invitation. 行きませんか is a very polite invitation and what you'll want to use when inviting someone above you in rank or age, or whom you've just met. ☺️

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Thanks!

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27:56 - Couldn't help but laugh here... amazing dialogue 😆

[@tracy5250]

We tried Mos Burger when we visited Tokyo. We liked the food but people were allowed to smoke in there so we ended up bring our food outside and ate our food in the rain.

[@XxTenshiChokoxX]

私は本当にロックが好きです 😅

[@amethystskeels3788]

If you think about it, "a" is just a counter for singular at the end of a word let's you know there is more than one thing. We say couple, few, many, plenty, lots, tons ontop of saying sheets, slabs, bushels, bunches, flocks, etc. There are too many to count. It must be hard trying to sound natural in English with so many things like that and so many speakers completely unaware of why they use the language they do

[@sirmarvel9532]

Instructions unclear I learned lesson 5 and now I can spin things in my hand infinitely

[@psychurch]

Genki should pay you to rewrite their books 👏👏👏 Ando san edition 😂

[@ArchToAchilles]

Thanks for the vid! These lessons really help. I'm really struggling to remember the い adjective conjugations. Any tips? Not gonna lie, when I initially learned that I had to remember adjective conjugations after learning the verb conjugations, I nearly stopped.

[@ToKiniAndy]

Just drilling them honestly. Fortunately, they are always the same regardless of the i adjective, so when you get comfortable conjugating one i adj, you should be able to conjugate all of them. Also, focus on just one at a time. For example, the negative: たのしくない い turns into く and you add ない I believe I cover it more in later lessons. =)

[@ArchToAchilles]

Thank you! That helps 😊

[@seanscap]

low key craving for some beef rice burger right about now

[@MatatabiYuki]

Hey Andy, I've got a question. When you cut the. い of off adjectives like たのしい and it turns into たのし___ do you ignore the い sound at the end of し and pronounce it like "SH", or can you just ignore the long vowel sound at the end and make し (SHI) shorter than しい (SHII) I'd really appreciate it if you helped me with this mind boggling thing, thanks :)

[@ryana2834]

at 19:46 for "the hot summer is coming", why is the particle が　used instead on に。thank you

[@dennisseeman2437]

excellent !!!

[@ToKiniAndy]

Thanks for watching!

[@ToKiniAndy]

ToKini Andy has outgrown Patreon. There is so much premium content now, that we decided to move (there were other reasons too). You can now access our premium course material at: www.tokiniandy.com/ edit: 5/19/2021

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I appreciate your hardwork man...

[@Robin-oh3zh]

i have a question regarding Kanji, did you learn the radicals for kanji or did you just repeat writing kanji until your brain started bleed?

[@ToKiniAndy]

I definitely learned the radicals. It is worth the time it takes, for sure.

[@Robin-oh3zh]

@@ToKiniAndy thanks for the answere.

[@bealotcoolerifyoudid7217]

''Everyone loves counters right?! .....Well we're having those as well..'' lol

[@kaizen1496]

18:55 景色 = view 33:00 何でもない = nevermind

[@VladTepesh409]

13:35 Because Japanese is an indirect language, you will find that from the direct meaning you hear, you should then infer the true, indirect meaning. In the case of 昨日は暇でした。 暇 is "free time". "As for yesterday, was free time." is the direct meaning, but what should be inferred from the direct meaning is the indirect meaning: "As for yesterday, was not busy." You should think of Japanese, from the English point-of-view, in this sense rather than trying to link the direct or indirect meaning to the translation. Use your mind to understand what is really happening in the language spoken and written, and the language will begin to make sense at the basic level throughout your studies. The same is true in any language. 1) What is said? 2) What is heard? 3) What is inferred? 4) What is understood? 5) What is the response?

[@laserm6113]

vokaroidu suki desu. suzushii desu!

[@ricosantos7524]

I'm having a hard time following the counter part. Please correct me if I'm wrong. So if I know which counter I particularly ordered, I will use ~まい? But if I don't know where or like I'm talking to a waiter, that's when I use ふたつ and so on? not sure if I word it right but basically I'm confused on which point I specifically use them.

[@matush2910]

i think ふたつ is a counter for anything (besides people) and まい is just for thin object like paper... i believe ふたつ can also be used for paper but まい is more fitting

[@ricosantos7524]

@@matush2910 thanks

[@justacarbuncle]

jポップが好きですよ😊

[@kotydragon]

nihon no rokku ongaku ga sukidesu

[@windworldwidespread2004]

21:11 - “It’s okay.” 25:02 -

[@neonvalorgaming7056]

I hate how I know what shirako is hahaha… I’ll be more careful ordering omakase at restaurants in Japan from now on 😂

[@casualbean5401]

Back for another one

[@ToKiniAndy]

おつかれさまです！

[@Kuro-O-kami]

It just feels so weird as my name is Ando too 😂

[@solkyske]

How would you say "let's not sing?" Thanks

[@Sneed_formerly_chucks]

I looked on google translate and it seems like you add わないようにし (wanai yo nishi) after sing and before ましょう (mashou) So it'd be 歌わないようにしましょう (Uta wanai yo nishi mashou)

[@cunha4791]

ボサノバとLOFIが好きですと。

[@bellyflopman]

Better than JFZ series. George is nice, but his books suck.

[@spectralgamer2214]

Can someone help me on the い and な adjectives. I don't know when to put いand な on sentences

[@ToKiniAndy]

You don't put い. It is part of the adjective already. Like in 楽しい

[@spectralgamer2214]

@@ToKiniAndy thank you so much