Topic List


　Looking for something specific and not sure where it would be? If it's on the site, it's listed here (or at least should be), under as many meaningful names as I can think of.

　Able to do something
　"About..."
　"About..."
　About to happen
　"According to..."
　Actions in progress
　Adjective conjugation
　Adjectives as abstract nouns
　Adjectives as adverbs
　Adjectives as verbs
　Adjective compounds (conjugation)
　Adjectival nouns (conjugation)
　Adverbing adjectives
　Advice
　"Although..."
　-anai form
　-anakatta form
　"... and ..." (nouns)
　"... and ..." (phrases)
　"... and ..., etc." (nouns)
　"... and ..., etc." (verbs)
　"... any minute now"
　Apologizing (basics)
　Apologizing (details)
　-areru verb ending
　-asareru verb ending
　-aseru verb ending
　"As far as ... is concerned ..."
　Asking for permission (causative form)
　Asking for permission (-te mo ii)
　Attempting something
　-ba form
　"Because..." (kara)
　"Because..." (node)
　"Because... and..." (shi
　"Better to..." (hou ga ii)
　...by (a time)
　"... called ..."
　can / can't (ability)
　can (permission)
　can't (permission)
　Casual form
　Causative form
　Causative-passive form
　Cause and effect (kara)
　Cause and effect (node)
　Caused conditions (~te aru)
　Causes and effect (shi)
　-cha dame
　-cha ikenai
　Characters used for native words (kana)
　Characters used for native words (kanji)
　Characters used for words of foreign origin
　-chau
　Chinese characters
　Command forms
　"Compared to ... "
　Comparisons
　Completely do
　"Concerning..."
　Concurrent events
　Conditional form (verbs)
　Conjectures based on what has been heard
　Consonant verbs (conjugation)
　Continuous states
　Contracting repeated nouns
　Copula
　Customary behavior (decided by self)
　Customary behavior (decided by society)
　dake particle (だけ)
　-darou
　de particle (で)
　-de ... forms (varient of -te ... forms)
　Decide to do...
　Decided practices
　Denying permission
　"Depending on..."
　Describing a noun using another noun
　Describing a person's attributes
　Desires (want to do)
　-deshou
　"Despite..."
　Destination marker (へ)
　Destination marker (alternate) (に)
　Dictionary form
　Difficulty of actions
　Direct object marker (を)
　Direct style
　Distal style
　e particle (へ)
　-e verb ending
　Easy to do
　-eba form
　Embedded questions
　Emphasis marker (よ)
　English and other foreign words in Japanese
　-eru form
　"Even if..."
　"Even though..."
　"Even though..."
　"Ever since..."
　Forced to do...
　Formality codes used on this site
　Formality in language
　Formality in requests and apologies
　Frequency (using numbers)
　Future actions
　Future actions (plans)
　-gatte iru ending
　ga particle (が)
　Gender codes used on this site
　Gender in language (overview)
　Getting ready for something
　Giving permission
　Godan verbs (conjugation)
　"Good thing that..."
　Grammar
　Group I verbs (conjugation)
　Group II verbs (conjugation)
　Guesses
　Guesses based on what has been heard
　ha (は) as a particle is pronounced wa
　Hard to do
　"have/has done..."
　-hazu
　he (へ) as a particle is pronounced e
　Hearsay
　"Here is..."
　Hiragana
　Hortative form
　-hou ga ii
　-i adjectives (conjugation)
　Ichidan verbs (conjugation)
　Ideograms
　if (verbs)
　if / when (verbs)
　"I hear that..."
　"I hope..."
　-imasen form
　-imasen deshita form
　-imashita form
　-imashou form
　-imasu form
　"I'm glad that..."
　Imminent events
　Impressions
　"I'm sorry" (conjugation)
　"I'm sorry" (details)
　Indefinite pronouns (anything, everywhere, etc.)
　Indicating commonality
　Indirect obect marker (に)
　"In order to..." (に)
　Intentions
　Interrogative pronouns (who, where, etc.)
　Interval of time
　Irregular verbs (conjugation)
　"I've heard..."
　"I wonder..."
　"... is ...", "... is a ..."
　"... isn't ...", "... isn't a ..."　1　2
　ja particle (じゃ, contraction of では de wa)
　-ja dame
　-ja ikenai
　-jau
　Japanese native syllabry
　ka particle (か)
　kai particle (かい)
　-ka mo shiremasen
　-ka mo shirenai
　-ka na
　Kanji (information)
　Kanji (sample kanji)
　kara particle (から)
　-kashira
　Katakana
　kedo particle (けど)
　keredo particle (けれど)
　keredomo particle (けれども)
　-koto ga aru
　-koto ga dekiru
　-koto ni naru
　-koto ni natte iru
　-koto ni shite iru
　-koto ni suru
　Kun'yomi
　kuse ni connecting phrase (くせに)
　"less ... than ..."
　Let someone do...
　"Let's ..."
　Linking phrases together
　Linking phrases together (literary)
　Location of an action
　Long form
　"Looks like..." (adjectives)
　"Looks like..." (nouns, verbs, sentences)
　made particle (まで)
　Made by someone to do...
　made ni particle (までに)
　Make someone do...
　-masen form
　-masen deshita form
　-mashita form
　-mashou form
　-masu form
　-masu stem
　"Maybe..."
　"May I...?"
　Means by which an action is performed
　-mitai
　mo particle (も)
　-na adjectives (conjugation)
　-na verb ending
　-nagara verb ending
　-nai verb form
　-nai de verb ending
　-nakatta verb form
　-nakereba verb ending
　-nakucha dame
　-nakucha ikenai
　-nakute verb ending
　-nakute mo ii
　-nakute wa ikenai
　Name suffixes
　Naming things or people
　-nasai verb ending
　Native syllabry
　-nda sentence ending
　-ndesu sentence ending
　ne particle (ね)
　-neba verb ending
　ni particle (に)
　-nikui verb ending
　ni kurabete particle-ish thing
　ni totte particle-ish thing
　ni tsuite particle-ish thing
　ni yoru to particle-ish thing
　ni yotte particle-ish thing
　no particle (の)
　-no ending
　-no da ending
　-no ga dekiru
　node particle (ので)
　-no desu ending
　No later than
　noni particle (のに)
　Nonpast affirmative form
　Nonpast negative form
　Nouning adjectives
　Noun-like adjectives (conjugation)
　o particle を is listed as wo particle
　Objects with traits in common
　Object marker (を, for direct objects)
　Object marker (に, for most indirect objects)
　Observations about other people
　Offering an item
　Only a given amount/thing
　Only a small amount
　On'yomi
　Orders
　-ou form
　Ought to be...
　Ought to / ought not to do...
　Overdoing it (adjectives)
　Overdoing it (verbs)
　Ownership
　Particles
　Passive form
　Past Affirmative form
　Past Negative form
　"...perhaps"
　Permission (denying)
　Permission (granting)
　Personal pronouns (I, you, etc.)
　Plain form
　Plans
　"Please ..." (with actions, basics)
　"Please..." (with actions, detailed information)
　"Please give me..."
　"Please take..."
　Plurals
　Polite form
　Possesion
　Potential form
　Predictions
　Preparations
　Present tense (sort of)
　Private feelings
　"...probably"
　Progressive tense (sort of)
　Pronouns (demonstrative - this, there, etc.)
　Pronouns (indefinite - anything, everywhere, etc.)
　Pronouns (interrogative - who, where, etc.)
　Pronouns (personal - I, you, etc.)
　Pronouns (usage notes)
　Purpose of movement
　Qualifying phrases
　Question sentences
　Questions within larger sentences
　Quoting
　-rareru verb ending (passive form)
　-rareru verb ending (potential form)
　-rashii (sentence ending)
　Relative clauses
　-reru form
　Reporting what someone said
　Requests (basics)
　Requests (moderately detailed)
　Resemblance
　-ro verb ending
　Role of an item
　Romanization conventions used on this site
　Roumaji
　-ru verbs (conjugation)
　sa particle (さ)
　sae particle (さえ)
　-saserareru verb ending
　-saseru verb ending
　"Seems like..." (adjectives)
　"Seems like..." (nouns and verbs)
　Sentences modifying nouns
　shika particle (しか)
　Short form
　Should be so
　Should / shouldn't do (-ba ii)
　Should / shouldn't do (hou ga ii)
　Similarity
　Simultaneous events
　"Sorry" (basics)
　"Sorry" (details)
　-sou adjective ending
　-sou sentence ending
　-sou verb ending
　Source of movement
　Start and end time
　Subject marker (が)
　-sugiru (with adjectives)
　-sugiru (with verbs)
　-ta form
　-tara form
　-tai form
　-tari ... suru construct
　-te form
　-te aru
　-te hoshii
　-te iru
　-te kara
　-te miru
　-te mo
　-te mo ii
　-te oku
　-te ru
　-te shimau
　-te wa ikenai
　-te yokatta
　"... therefore ..." (kara)
　"... therefore ..." (node)
　"... and ... therefore ... (shi)
　Thoughts (speaking about)
　Time (interval)
　Time (of an action)
　to paticle (と)
　-to ii desu ne
　-to ii nda ga
　-to ii ndesu ga
　-to ii ne
　-to iu (naming)
　-toku (contraction of ~te oku)
　Too much (adjectives)
　Too much (verbs)
　Topic marker (は)
　Trying something
　-tsumori (desu)
　tsuu slurring (つー)
　tte contraction (って)
　-u verbs (conjugation)
　uncertainty
　"Until..."
　Using nouns to describe nouns
　Verbs (conjugation)
　Verb compounds (conjugation)
　Verb-like adjectives (conjugation)
　Verb stem
　Verbing adjectives
　Victimization
　Vocabulary
　Volitional form
　Vowel verbs (conjugation)
　wa particle (は)
　wa particle (わ)
　wai particle(?) (わい)
　Want to do...
　Want someone else to do...
　"... whenever ..."
　When an action occurs
　"... with ..." (two nouns)
　wo particle (を)
　Wondering out loud
　Word choice (formality)
　Word choice (gender)
　Word order
　ya particle (や)
　-yasui verb ending
　yo particle (よ)
　-yo verb ending
　-you sentence ending
　-you verb ending
　yori particle (より)
　yori mo particles (よりも)
　ze particle (ぜ)
　zo particle (ぞ)