Terminology

Kana

Japanese has 2 phonetic writing systems. Hiragana and Katakana. We use this word to refer to both of them.

Conjugation

This is the process of changing a verb or adjective into different forms (Like present, past). For example: "he sleeps" and "he slept". In japanese conjugation works different than in english.

Conjunction

This are the words placed between sentences or vocab. For example "... but ... " and "Also, ..".

Vocab

This is short for vocabulary. Which is a nice name for words. All Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives are included in here.

Verbs

This are words like "To eat", "To sleep" and "To do". These words are used to describe an action. In japanese these verbs can be split into multiple groups: U-Verbs, RU-Verbs and Irregular verbs (They end with する or くる). You can find the differences between them on the Conjugation page.

Nouns

Normal words usually used to describe a something. For example: "Cow", "Moon" or "Sister"

Adjectives

This describes something about a noun or action. For example: "Beautiful", "Quick" or "Lazy".

Grammar

The rules of the language and all the supporting words for it. For example: "This", "And" or "Is". These words don't have a meaning of themselves, but they're used to glue a sentence together.

Phrase

Some sentences are glued together in a fixed common phrase. We list them as a phrase in the vocab section.