Welcome to the A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar :white_flower: Reading Club! Have you ever had the crazy thought of reading A Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar from cover to cover? Do you sometimes feel a sting of guilt knowing you should review some of the basics or not so …

[image] Gorbit99: It’s saturday somewhere, probably Like here, for example (GMT+7). Also, Japan Standard Time is GMT+9.

I (think) that I understand -na adjectives, but I have not encountered this way of presenting them before. In my text, the adjective is shizuka, the prenominal form is shizukana, and it combines with the copula, as shizukada, shizukadeshou and so on… The dictionary, on the other hand appears to t…

As far as I’ve seen, dictionaries exclude the だ for な-adjective entries. For example, 静か . That said, I think that’s just a convention. According to this Japanese grammar site (using 静か as an example), 静か is the 語幹 (stem), which supports why that form would be used in dictionaries. In modern Japanes…

I understand all of this, but I am observing that the dictionary is taking a non-standard approach to the presentation. It may be relevant later on. – Dave

My reaction to this idea. [image]

First part of Characteristics of Japanese Grammar is here. [image] [aDoBJG] Characteristics of Japanese Grammar - Section #1-5 white_flower A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar Book Clubs Characteristics of Japanese Grammar - Section #1-5 [adobjg] A Dicti…

I have something groundbreaking to bring to the group today! I was browsing the Tofugu learning resources database and I came across an incredible discovery! Two brothers created a Discord server/bot which serves as a “public quiz arcade”. There are quizzes for all the grammar points found in the D…

I thought this thread somehow lost momentum and never started… just realized that there are individual threads for each of the first couple of weeks I didn’t read it thoroughly, my bad

And here is the second half of grammar characteristics: [image] [aDoBJG] Characteristics of Japanese Grammar - Section #6-9 white_flower A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar Book Clubs Characteristics of Japanese Grammar - Section #6-9 [adobjg] A Dictiona…

@Book9 maybe a bit of a weird request, but do you think you can find a new name for the threads, so that it is visible on mobile, which week has new posts? I like to put all threads on watching but for example if I’m not up to date on week 3, I ignore the notification until I’ve read everything. W…

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