013: Replies

More verbs. Now that you know how to spot Ichidan, Godan and Exception verbs let's get back into conjugation. 

As a reminder here is the list of bases: 

Base 1: a/あ

Base 2: i/い

Base 3: u/う

Base 4: e/え

Base 5: ou *long sound おう 

Here are some basic examples with each verb type as they conjugate slightly differently. 

Godan Verbs: nomu – to drink

Nomu in Base 1 = noma　のま

Nomu in Base 2 = nomi　のみ

Nomu in Base 3 = nomu　のむ

Nomu in Base 4 = nome　のめ

Nomu in Base 5 = nomou のもう 

So from here, we remember that the bases are basically the first part of two pieces that make up the form of the verb. Let's go over an example. To put verbs in the negative form we first mush change it into Base 1 and then add ない. So To Drink (のむ) become Does not drink (のまない) . That simple. Now each type of ending must aline with one of the 7 bases. However, each base has a meaning of it's own. For example, Base 5 mean's let's Verb. Or Let's Drink (のもう). While we will not go over all the meaning today try to memorize these main ones of Base 1 + ない and Base 5. This will help us understand the last two bases which is next week's topic.