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Plain form or dictionary form Created by L. Whittingham

2 When do we use plain form?
Informal situations Dictionaries – verbs are always written in their plain form in dictionaries. As part of more complex grammar patterns Created by L. Whittingham

3 Changing verbs to plain form
First you need to decide if the verb is Ichidan, Godan or irregular. We already learnt how to do this when we learnt てform. Created by L. Whittingham

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Ichidan verbs Remove ますand add る For example: 食べます + 食べる Created by L. Whittingham

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Godan Verbs For Godan verbs you need to understand the lines and the rows of the hiragana chart. Created by L. Whittingham

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This is the “a” line of the hiragana chart Created by L. Whittingham

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This is the “u” line of the hiragana chart Created by L. Whittingham

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This is the “m~” row of the hiragana chart Created by L. Whittingham

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This is the “s~” row of the hiragana chart Created by L. Whittingham

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Godan Verbs Now that you understand the lines and rows of a hiragana chart we can change godan verbs to plain form Remove ます and change the character before ますto the うline of the same row of the hiragana chart Created by L. Whittingham

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For example: よみます The last character before ます is み Find the row of the hiragana chart that み is in Then change it to the character that is in the same row but is also in the “u” line. Created by L. Whittingham

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line Row that み is in Created by L. Whittingham

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So よみます becomes よむ Created by L. Whittingham

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What will かきます become? Created by L. Whittingham

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So かきます becomes かく Created by L. Whittingham

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Irregular Verbs します  する きます  くる Created by L. Whittingham


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