✨ Basic Meaning
🎯 Primary Function
📋 Grammar Structure
🎭 Usage Contexts
Commonly used in polite speech to make observations or offer help based on what you see.
Used frequently in daily conversation to comment on food, weather, or people’s moods.
Used in descriptive writing and narratives to portray characters’ feelings or atmosphere.
Highly prevalent in spoken Japanese for immediate reactions.
💡 Common Applications
📌 Important Points
⚠️ Common Mistakes
🏛️ Cultural Context
🔍 Subtle Differences
📝 Conjugation Notes
For I-adjectives, remove the final ‘i’. For Na-adjectives, use the root. For verbs, use the Masu-stem. Special cases: ‘ii’ becomes ‘yosa’ and ‘nai’ becomes ‘nasa’.
🔊 Pronunciation Tips
The ‘sou’ part is a long vowel. Ensure you don’t shorten it to ‘so’.
🧠 Memory Tips
Think of ‘Souna’ as an adjective (ending in ‘na’) and ‘Souni’ as an adverb (ending in ‘ni’, similar to the ‘ly’ in English).
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