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No it doesn't make sense. At least I didn't get it :p
A song I was taught to remember: I chi ri -te Mi ni bin -de Ki -ite Shi -shite With a little tune... |
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This formula looks very interesting and I've certainly never seen it before. Surprisingly, it does work with many of verbs that I've just tried. But I have a few questions/comments. 1. When you say 'te form', do you include the 'de form'? Let us take the verb 'nugu' (to take off clothes) for example. According to this formula, you will have 'nuite'. In reality, however, we the native speakers of Japanese never says 'nuite'. We will all say 'nuide'. The same goes with verbs like 'yomu = to read', 'shinu = to die', 'kogu = to row a boat', etc... We say 'yonde', 'shinde', 'koide', etc. 2. The formula talks about upper case and lower case, but when would you ever expect to see an upper case letter in the middle of a Japanese verb written in romaji? 3. Suppose one comes up with a perfect formula (and I'm actually starting to feel that it may be possible with only a few exceptional verbs. ), could the Japanese learner carry it in a corner of his brain and make the te and de forms before he verbalizes them? I highly doubt that one could do it because one has to conjugate verbs all the time as in any other language, let alone the te and de forms. I would suggest that you say all the conjugated forms out loud repeatedly every time you learn a new verb...so that verbs incorrectly conjugated will sound 'foreign' to your own ear. |
haha yeah, iv enever seen it before as well
in fact, i learnt -te/-de forms from speaking to a native japanese speaker so i dont excatly use a 'formula' it just takes practise, both writing, reading, and even thinking (err at school sometimes i think in japanese and then i speak in english o_O" weird..) writing out sentences is the best way to practise them though imo just write out sentences using verbs and sentence structures that uses the -te form and stuff eventually you should reach the stage where you dont even think about "-te form" or "dictionary form" or stuff like that |
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ahahahahaha noice!! it was to the song "oh ma darlin" or sumthin |
Te and Ta Song
When I first started studying Japanese (1986...probably before most of you were born), my teacher taught us this song:
To the tune of Silver Bells (the first verse, not the chorus): U tsu ru tte Bu mu nu nde Ku ite, su shite Gu ide are the te and ta bases U tsu ru tta Bu mu nu nda Ku ita, su shita Gu ida are the te and ta bases So...the te and ta forms for verbs ending in u, tsu, ru = tte/ tta verbs ending in bu, mu, nu = nde/ nda verbs ending in gu = ide/ ida Man, I'm old. Sore ja. |
i was taught:
minasan wo minasan wo te form oboemasho u tsu ru tte bu mu nu nde ku ite gu ide su shite thers a little tune, but it works. |
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Example Nonde, Sunde, kunde. These verbs are conjugated 'irregularly' compared to Taberu -To Eat, Neru - To sleep, Okiru - To wake which all end in "ru" in there dictionary/original form. These verbs when put into the "te" form are Tabete, Nete, Okite Hopefully that clears things up for you, and any native speakers please correct me if I'm wrong |
Hey, I find this thread very interesting, don't you agree?
We have seen many Q & A threads all over, but this came to my mind. How about something interesting that we had learnt from somewhere before. It could be from a book or from a friend or your Japanese teacher. Please feel free to contribute to this thread. It can be like: - a unique way to remember hiragana/katagana - a grammer form that rhymes away - a learning tip that goes like a song - etc. If I know how to move all this to a new thread under a new name, I would. I'd probably call it JAPANESE LEARNING TIPS or something like that. |
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if you know plain form (dictionary form) there is an easy way to remember te form. く = いて ぐ = いで うつる = って ぬむぶ = んで す = して just change one of those (last sounds of plain form verbs) to the te form they correspond with. for example: 買います － 買う － 買って （うつるって) |
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