Sunday, June 5, 2011

10pts. People proficient in japanese writing, grammar, and vocabulary...?

Question:


I know the basic sentence structure is "subject, object, verb" with sentence particles marking the relevance of each one. But where would other grammatical terms be placed?

Examples:
adjectives
adverbs
intransitive verbs
pronouns

What if a sentence necessitated all of these?

Answer:


Adjectives will most likely be placed before nouns.

大きい猫ですね。 


Adverbs from adjectives: Change the ending

Add to stem
-i = +ku
-na = +ni

For example:
cheap => yasui
cheaply => yasuku

quick => hayai
quickly => hayaku

Other adverbs (not made from adjectives):

yesterday => kino
today => kyo
only => bakkari
very => totemo, taihen
slowly => yukkuri
more => motto
a little => sukoshi

Adverbs can be placed at the beginning of sentences or before verbs.

Not sure if Japanese has intransitive verbs. But usually, it is just past tense at the end of a sentence.

Pronouns are usually a the beginning of sentences, used as the subject. But also depends what kind of pronouns you are talking about too.

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