If you're a beginner to Japanese, and someone tells you sentences always end in verbs, punch them… - Feed Post by Kakka_rotSRL
If you're a beginner to Japanese, and someone tells you sentences always end in verbs, punch them in the throat.
Verbs ending sentences is almost substantially less common than them not.
(Also, I moved into my Old Lady's home two weeks ago, and have had no internet.)
As far as I know, graduated from Ristsumeikan 大学。They are dicks here, and make us wait two months before knowing our grades. I needed 14 credits to graduate, but I took 22 just because I dont play games.
Expect to return home to America in mid-september. Heard Nintendo of America (the biggest USA branch is in WA, where I come from) is looking for 日本語を話している人 so I am going to go there first.
Wish me your best.
Verbs ending sentences is almost substantially less common than them not.
(Also, I moved into my Old Lady's home two weeks ago, and have had no internet.)
As far as I know, graduated from Ristsumeikan 大学。They are dicks here, and make us wait two months before knowing our grades. I needed 14 credits to graduate, but I took 22 just because I dont play games.
Expect to return home to America in mid-september. Heard Nintendo of America (the biggest USA branch is in WA, where I come from) is looking for 日本語を話している人 so I am going to go there first.
Wish me your best.
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That's a good job!! I kinda wanna do that but in Japan... If you get the job, tell me some secrets ;)
That job sounds fun--both Japanese and video games. I hope things go well.
I understand what you mean about sentences not "always" ending in verbs, but what do you mean by saying it is less common that they end in them than not?
I get that auxiliaries are attached to the end of the verb, so you could argue that these often what are at the end of sentences instead of the actual verb itself. And I get that there are also sentence ending particles. I also get that if you weren't including です as a type of verb (a linking verb, i.e. "copula") then you could also say for です, だ,... that these are often found at the end instead of verbs.
I think all these examples I've listed above are too nitpicky to be what you meant. I think what you mean is something else?
I guess the best thing I can think of is that they can also end in adjectives. But i-adjectives are essentially verbal anyway, and na-adjectives are followed by the copula.
In English, our sentences certainly don't always end in verbs. They can still end in verbs, but they can also end in direct object, indirect object, adverbs,...--loads of different things. However, in Japanese it seems like all those things *nearly always* come before the verb instead.
Seeing as everyone else read what you wrote without querying it at all, it makes me wonder if I'm being dense for not being able to immediately understand something obvious. There are some other things I haven't mentioned but nothing which I would think to be the most common ways of ending sentences. I'm just interested in what specifically you meant? ^^
