Monday, July 5, 2010

S2 Day 3: Conjugations!

It's about time I got down and finally learned how to conjugate things properly. I'll probably compile this into an Anki deck when I stop being lazy, but for now, here it goes.

na-adjectives
好き
positive non-past: 魚が好きタイプ。
negative non-past: 魚が好きじゃないタイプ。
positive past: 魚が好きだったタイプ。
negative past: 魚が好きじゃなかったタイプ。
So in this case, the sentences above describe Type and whether the type is one that likes, doesn't like, liked, or didn't like fish.

i-adjectives
高い
positive non-past: 高
negative non-past: 高くない
positive past: 高かった
negative past: 高くなかった
With these, we can add the conjugation directly to the front of a noun. So 高い男の子 would mean tall boy and 高くなかった男の子 would mean boy who was not tall.

The only exception to the conjugation is いい which means good.
いい
positive non-past: いい
negative non-past: よくない(良くない)
positive past: よかった(良かった)
negative past: よくなかった(良くなかった)
The adjective かっこいい, cool, behaves the same way.

一段動詞 Type II -ru Verbs
見る(みる)
positive non-past: 見る
negative non-past: 見ない

五段動詞 Type I -u Verbs
飲む(のむ)
positive non-past: 飲む
negative non-past: 飲まない

I don't know if I want to tackle memorizing the past forms for the verbs since I feel as if I already have enough to memorize for today.

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