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	Japanese Grammar Tutorials
	Ageru あげる Basic statments of identity だ・です・じゃない・じゃありません Past tense statements of identity だった・でした・じゃなかった・じゃありませんでした Desu (older tutorial)　です Some basic verb inflections: hanasu and tsukuru Doko　どこ -nakereba narimasen　なければなりません darou / deshou だろう・でしょう kuru and iku The future tense in Japanese and the “non-past” Using no　の Conjugating する and 来る (plain/dictionary form) The present tense of the ですます体/ desumasutai form The past tense of the desumasutai form Forming the negative tenses of the desu-masu-tai form amari　あまり The -ba －ばform dai だい daroo / deshoo だろう・でしょう -dasu －出す demo でも doo どう -hajimeru 始める -hazu はず hoshii ほしい kore, sore, are これ、それ、あれ doko / koko / soko / asoko どこ・ここ・そこ・あそこ the てform of the copula nanika / dareka 何か・誰かいるand ある and expressions of being Japanese verbal nouns and the many faces of する ikura 幾ら Japanese gerunds ikura...nai 　いくら　ない Large numbers in Japanese The particle を in a directional statement baai / 場合	Using mai-　毎 aida 間 aida (ni)　間に Japanese verb categories (ru, u, and irregular verbs) The negative form of the ru-verbs Conjugating the negative forms of the u-verbs Conjugating the past-positive forms of u-verbs (newer tutorial) Past Tense of u-verbs (older tutorial) The Motion Particle へ sareru される i-adjectives　 The particle か Japanese pronouns te-ageru てあげる te-aru　てある mada まだ -ba yokatta-ばよかった dake だけ mou もう dake de naku 　だけでなく The particle de The particle ga が -garu がる goro ごろ goto ni ごとに hodo ほど Forming possessives with the particle の The particle の as “one” chigau / 違う Telling time in Japanese (basic) More time expressions: 午前・午後・半・夜 hoo ga ii ほうがいい desu ↔ ni + aru / ni + iru です　↔　に＋ある・　に＋いる no + soba / mae / temae / naka / ushiro / shita / ue + ni の＋（そば・前・手前・中・後ろ・下・上）＋に konna / sonna / anna / donna こんな・そんな・あんな・どんな The particle を as the causation of human emotion いる and ある and expressions of being The particle に in adverbs Introduction to Japanese adjectives Day of the week in Japanese Days of the month in Japanese
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