Qubyte Codes

When not used with a past tense verb, 事(こと)がある means that the verb or adjective it follows is possible, or that it happens sometimes…

Don't worry, apples are fine but I don't like them as much as this note makes out…

そう can be used to express an impression or expectation of something. In English it's roughly equivalent to "seems like" or "looks like"…

The の particle is used for attribution of nouns…

This page is a hub for the hypothetical form 仮(か)定(てい)形(けい). It describes how to conjugate verbs and adjectives to their hypothetical form. The hypothetical form is a kind of stem form of both kinds of word, which can be used to compose a conditional form by appending ば…

Nouns use the の particle to attribute. In English it roughly corresponds to of, with the order reversed…

This page is a hub for the adjective conjugations. This document is a brief explainer for the names I use for verb types. See backlinks at the bottom for notes linking to this one, including links to specific conjugations…

Giving and receiving in Japanese can be confusing to the English speaker, particularly in how particles are used…

に can be used to indicate an absolute point in time. Such points include days of the week, months, years, calendar dates, and time of the clock…

This page is a hub for the te form, or て形(けい). It describes how to conjugate verbs to their te form, and links out to other articles about its use. See backlinks at the bottom for notes linking to this one…

This page is a hub for the potential form, or 可(か)能(のう)形(けい). It describes how to conjugate verbs to their potential form, and links out to other articles about its use. See backlinks at the bottom for notes linking to this one…

This page is a hub for the verb conjugations. This document is a brief explainer for the names I use for verb types. See links at the bottom for notes about specific conjugations…

This page is a hub for the volitional form 意(い)向(こう)形(けい). It describes how to conjugate verbs to their volitional form, and links out to other articles about its use. See backlinks at the bottom for notes linking to this one…

A combination of the volitional form of a verb and 〜と思(おも)います…

There are two major ways of expressing the ability to do something…

When you want to express a desire for another to perform some action, use the て form of a verb and append ほしい to it…

The order of events in a Japanese sentence can be established a number of ways. This post covers four ways. The translations of some examples are given two orders, literal (what I consider the literal translation), and natural (a translation which feels a bit more natural to me without changing the meaning)…

まだ can be used to express when something is not yet the case, or is still the case…

もう can be used to express when something is already the case, or will not be the case again…

You can compose compose conditional or hypothetical phrases using 〜たら. You can compose it using the plain past conjugation of a word and appending ら to it. This is one of many ways of forming conditionals or hypotheticals…

Using も, だけ, and しか can add nuance to amounts of things…

It's about time I started keeping notes again! I've engineered in just enough to make it fun rather than an hindrance. For example, I can how write furigana in a way that doesn't look out of place in markdown. For example, {ja:^私,わたし^} renders as 私(わたし). It also works on words with multiple ruby components. For example {ja:^振,ふ,り,,仮名,がな^} renders as 振(ふ)り仮名(がな). The comma separated list is paired groups of characters (which is why the ã‚Š is followed by an empty element)…