ようこそ、スパイスの家へ

2024/10/20

Here, I plan to document all the verb stems, and all the helper verbs you can attach to them.
These are based off of Cure Dolly's series of grammar videos, which is a sligtly unconventional way of explaining Japanese grammar.

Tabe of Content

-aiueo stems
-tte and ta
-particles

い stem

Apparently, this is the most important stem. Here are some of the things it can do:

-Make a verb a noun
-Attach ます・ません
-Attach たい

This is an example of a verb made into a noun: etcetc

あ stem

A rarer stem.

-Attach れる ("Nuisance Receptive")

れる is the "got happened to" helper verb. This might be an unfortunate thing.
For example, 誰かに鞄が盗まれた (Someone, bag, stole (reta form)) includes 盗む (meaning "stole") in its れた form. That means stole happened to the bag.
Another example: 果物が食べられた. In this situation, I think 果物 can recieve the が particle instead of を because 食べる is attached to れた, meaning "The fruits (subject), eating happened to it". But I made this sentence, so it may be wrong.
And another, this time including kara: 鞄から本が盗まれた. (Bag from, book (subject), got stolen.)

And finally there's て form, which doesn't follow the previous structure of the final vowel. It checks for any of the following kana:
く、ぐ、う、つ、る、ぬ、む、ぶ、す
and then deletes that kana, turning it into the corresponding て form. Note that て form doesn't always end in て. Because んで、して、って、いて、いで　are the て forms. It's not always ending in て.
The chart is
く/ いて
ぐ/ いで
う/つ/る > って
ぬ/む/ぶ > んで
す > して
て form makes a verb connective. It is used in many common Japanese things that are considered "grammar points" like DEMO, but they're actually just de + mo, de being the te form of da.
And then there's the た form, the past tense of a verb. End a sentance on a past tense verb to make it past tense.
Do what you did with て form, and now your word would be something like 走って. Now, instead of ending in de or te, change that to da or ta. Now you have your ta form
走った

Particles here. I'll move them to another page later.

と is a particle that can quote other things when you put it after them. This is actually what って and だって come from - they are shortened versions of "insert quote here"と and "insert statement です"って. Note that だって occurs because the previous sentance had to end with the copula だ/です