Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “Not only… but also…” or “In addition to…” 🎯 Primary Function To indicate that something goes beyond an initial statement, adding another fact or consequence (often unexpected, negative, or adding emphasis to the extent). 📋 Grammar Structure Verb (plain form) + ばかりか い-adjective (plain form) + […]
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning Expresses a situation that is solely progressing in one direction OR indicates that only one thing remains to be done. 🎯 Primary Function To emphasize a unidirectional trend (often negative) OR to state that everything is ready except for one final action/state. 📋 Grammar Structure 動詞の辞書形
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “Or” (as a conjunction) or “perhaps/possibly” (as an adverb). 🎯 Primary Function To connect two or more alternatives, similar to 「または」, often in more formal contexts. It can also introduce a possibility. 📋 Grammar Structure [Noun/Noun Phrase] あるいは [Noun/Noun Phrase] [Clause/Phrase] あるいは [Clause/Phrase] あるいは [Sentence/Clause] (…or
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “in the end,” “after much,” “after doing X for a long time, Y happened (negative outcome)” 🎯 Primary Function To indicate that a negative or undesirable result occurred after a lengthy process, repeated action, or much effort. It often carries a nuance of frustration or disappointment.
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning Difficult to do; hard to do; unpleasant or painful to do. 🎯 Primary Function To express that an action is difficult, unpleasant, or painful to perform, often due to personal or internal reasons (physical state, emotional state, etc.), as opposed to external, objective difficulty. 📋 Grammar
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “not at all”, “completely not”, “absolutely not” 🎯 Primary Function To strongly emphasize the negation of a verb, i-adjective, na-adjective, or noun. 📋 Grammar Structure 全然 + Negative form of Verb/い-adjective/な-adjective/Noun Verb: 全然 + Verb ない form / ません form い-adjective: 全然 + い-adjective くない form
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning By all means; definitely; certainly; please do. 🎯 Primary Function To add emphasis to a request, invitation, recommendation, or personal desire, making it sound earnest and strong. 📋 Grammar Structure ぜひ + [Verb in 〜てください, 〜たい, 〜ましょう, Verb-stem + に行く/来る, etc. form] ぜひ is an adverb
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning Means ‘I think I will…’, ‘I am thinking of…’, or ‘I have decided to…’. 🎯 Primary Function To express the speaker’s own intention or decision regarding a future action. 📋 Grammar Structure Verb (Volitional form) + と 思う (to omou) 🎭 Usage Contexts 🏢 Formal Situations
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning To make an effort to do something; to try to do something (regularly or as a goal). 🎯 Primary Function Expresses a conscious effort or a resolution to perform an action or to make something happen. 📋 Grammar Structure Verb Plain Form (Dictionary Form or Negative
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning To come to be able to do something, to come to do something (as a habit), to come to be in a certain state. 🎯 Primary Function Indicates a change in state, ability, or habit that occurs gradually over time as a result of practice, effort,
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “like”, “as if”, “so that”, “in order to”, “seems like” 🎯 Primary Function To express comparison (like, as if), purpose or goal (so that), indirect requests/instructions, wishes, or appearance/state (seems/looks like). 📋 Grammar Structure Verb Plain Form (辞書形, ない形, た形, なかった形) + ように / ような い-adjective
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning This pattern primarily means “seems like,” “appears that,” or “looks like,” used for expressing conjecture or inference based on observation. It is also used to mean “like” or “as if” for making comparisons. 🎯 Primary Function To express a speaker’s conjecture or impression based on what
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning To express that something “looks like” or “seems” a certain way, based on direct observation, especially visual. 🎯 Primary Function To make a conjecture or describe the appearance of something based on immediate sensory information. 📋 Grammar Structure Verb ます-stem + そうだ い-adjective (remove い) +
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning To express a plan, a schedule, or an expectation that something will happen. 🎯 Primary Function To state predetermined plans, schedules, or arrangements. It indicates a higher degree of certainty or a fixed arrangement compared to simple intentions. 📋 Grammar Structure Verb Plain Form + 予定だ
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “than” 🎯 Primary Function Used to indicate the standard of comparison when comparing two things (A is more X *than* B). 📋 Grammar Structure [Noun 1] は [Noun 2] より [Adjective/Verb] です/ます。 OR [Noun 1] より [Noun 2] の方が [Adjective/Verb] です/ます。 🎭 Usage Contexts 🏢 Formal
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning The basic meaning of やっと is ‘finally’ or ‘at last’. It is used to express that something was achieved or completed after a long time, difficulty, or effort. 🎯 Primary Function Its primary function is to act as an adverb, modifying verbs, adjectives, or sometimes entire
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning “Easy to do” or “prone to happen” 🎯 Primary Function Indicates that an action is easy to perform, or that something is likely to become a certain way or happen. 📋 Grammar Structure Verb ます-stem + やすい 🎭 Usage Contexts 🏢 Formal Situations Can be used
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning Used to present two contrasting pieces of information, often about the same subject or two related subjects. 🎯 Primary Function To show a clear contrast or comparison, highlighting distinct characteristics or situations. 📋 Grammar Structure [Noun 1] は [Phrase A] が、[Noun 2 (or omitted if Noun
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning The passive voice in Japanese, where the subject receives the action of the verb. 🎯 Primary Function To shift focus from the doer of the action to the receiver, to express suffering or inconvenience caused by an action (迷惑の受身), to report facts or describe events where
Japanese Grammar Template Meaning & Usage ✨ Basic Meaning A casual particle primarily used for quoting or reporting what someone said or what you heard. 🎯 Primary Function To informally report information obtained from someone else or state something you heard/read. 📋 Grammar Structure Plain form of Verb/い-Adjective/な-Adjective/Noun + って * Verb (Plain): 行くって (iku
