Learn Japanese grammar point: ばかり
This is an excerpt from JTest4You’s N4 Grammar Ebook.
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Learn Japanese grammar point: ばかり
This is an excerpt from JTest4You’s N4 Grammar Ebook.
This is your god
なんです?
べっどにはいりたい?
しようりょうは ひとばん ニボシ ごひきです
Huh? Do you want to use this bed? OK, I'll allow you if you give me five dried anchovies for a day.
I am officially a law school graduate.
when did the Japanese start eating eggs? a long たまご.
Picture this, life and everything is the same, but animal crossing music plays in the background like it does in the game
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THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII
No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.
And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.
So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3
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NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!
This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”
All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)
Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.
so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase
Kawaii is so goth
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I did not know this but I love this form of feminism!
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Which is why you get bands like BABYMETAL, which toured with Judas Priest for a while, looking like this:
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A list of useful "other verbs"
try practicing conjugating them, using what you just learned.
遊ぶ あそぶ asobu = play 行く いく iku = go 泳ぐ およぐ oyogu= swim 歩く あるく aruku= walk 言う いう iu= say 思う おもう omou = think 送る おくる okuru = send 押す おす osu= push 終わる おわる owaru= end 売る うる uru= sell 聞く きく kiku = listen 切る きる kiru= cut 書く かく kaku= write 勝つ かつ katsu= win 買う かう kau= buy 返す かえす kaesu= return 転ぶ ころぶ korobu= fall down 頑張る ganbaru= hang on 入る はいる hairu = enter 消す けす kesu=erase, turn off 混む こむ komu= be crowded 死ぬ しぬ shinu=die 探す さがす sagasu= search, look for 咲く さく saku= bloom 着く つく tsuku= arrive 違う ちがう chigau=be different 取る とる toru= take 撮る とる toru= shoot, film 通る とおる tooru= go through 使う つかう tsukau= use 作る つくる tsukuru= make 飲む のむ nomu= drink 泣く なく naku= cry 習う ならう narau= learn 乗る のる noru= ride 走る はしる hashiru= run 運ぶ はこぶ hakobu= carry 待つ まつ matsu= wait 曲がる まがる magaru= turn もらう morau= be given 回る まわる mawaru= turn around 読む よむ yomu= read 笑う わらう warau= laugh わかる wakaru= understand
Ichidan verbs:
Ichidan verbs
These verbs are very simple, and aren’t nearly as hard as the other verbs we went over.
The way to recognize these verbs is that they end in –Iru or –Eru. The worst thing about these is that some verbs look like -ichidan verbs but are actually -ru verbs. There is no way to know for sure which ones these are you just have to be careful.
To make the masu form all you have to do is drop the –Ru and add masu. It’s that simple.
Examples:
Taberu ( to eat)- Tabemasu
Neru (to sleep)- Nemasu
Deru (to go out)- Demasu
Miru ( to watch, to look)- Mimasu
Kiru ( to put on)- Kimasu
Shinjiru (to believe)- shinjimasu
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