Now it is time to begin the first lesson in adjectivals in Japanese.
An adjective is placed before the nominal in Japanese, when modifying a nominal. However, often, as in english, the
nominal can be omitted if both speakers understand what is being talked about, or it it has already been mentioned.
If you are going to use just an adjectival by itself, remember to put after it.
For this lesson, we will cover how to conjugate adjectivals. An adjective can be in four main forms, the same four main forms
that verbals take on: Imperfective (present/future), Perfective (past), Negative Imperfective, and Negative Perfective.
Form
Conjugation
Imperfective (Present/Future)
STEM +
Perfective (Past)
STEM +
Negative Imperfective
STEM +
Negative Perfective
STEM +
Refer to these stems when studying the adjectival vocabularies to come.
after it.
