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美味しく作ります, 綺麗に作ります — when adjectives want to modify verbs, they need to transform into adverbs. い→く, な→に. Two rules, done.
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暑い→暑くない→暑かった→暑くなかった — Japanese adjective conjugation follows clean patterns. One table to learn them all.
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高い becomes 高さ, 優しい becomes 優しさ -- add さ and adjectives transform from describing states into measurable, comparable, remarkable nouns.
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「Cheap and delicious」is 安くておいしい, 「quiet and clean」is 静かできれい — adjectives and nouns have their own te-form for chaining descriptions.
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Books on the table use あります, students in the classroom use います — Japanese has two words for 'exist,' and mixing them up sounds very odd.
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'美味しいですが高いです' and '美味しいです。しかし高いです' both mean 'delicious but expensive' -- one glues sentences together, the other keeps them separate.
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「三杯コーヒー」or「コーヒーを三杯」? Japanese counter placement is more flexible than English, but there's one rule you must never break.
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One year old isn't いちさい, one animal isn't いちひき — Japanese counter sound changes seem complex, but just remember '1-6-8-10' and you'll handle most of them.
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Today, tomorrow, morning, evening — these words come up in every conversation. Some readings will surprise you.
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Days 1-10 all have irregular readings, and April and September have traps too — master Japanese date pronunciation with one chart.
