The Advanced Verb Chant Chart
So I imagine you're familiar with the original Verb Chant Chart. If you're not, then this may be a little confusing. Here's our original chart:
And here is the new, improved, more advanced version.
Click on this image if it's hard to see.
How to add to the Chart
What happens if you want to know the past-tense of 'to sleep' - neru? You have to add it to the table. To do that, you must run through the checklist:
1) Is it する / くる ? Then it's an irregular verb.
2) Is it in the Godan Special list? Have a look!
3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
4) If your verb gets to this point, it's a godan verb.
Now, you may not know how to run a verb through the checklist. So I'll explain it to you now.
1) Is it する / くる ? Then it's an irregular verb.
So if the verb is する / くる, then your work is done. Look up to Irregular verbs in our table, and find the verb that you want!
2) Is it in the Godan Special list? Have a look!
It's the same as 1) - if it's in there, your work is done.
3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
Before you do anything, if your verb does not end in ru る, then skip this.
This is a little more complicated. Let's use TABERU (to eat) for our example.Look at taberu: たべる. It's made up of TA (which we'll ignore because it's not important for what we're about to do), BE and RU. If you split up the BE, you get B and E. Let's look at our checklist again: 3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
So we've got BERU. Take off the B, and we've got E RU (える). That's on the checklist! So, let's check this with our to sleep verb. NE is N and E. So it's ERU. And ERU is on the checklist! So we go to Ichidan verbs, and take off TABE for example, and replace it with our verb: NERU. So this is what the NERU like will look like on the checklist:
NERU, NERU, NERANAI, NE, NETE, NETA, NERARERU.
Yay, done!
4) If your verb gets to this point, it's a godan verb.
What happens if we have a verb that isn't an irregular, godan special or ichidan verb? We have a Godan verb. We do the same as what we do for 3). We'll use the verb nomu, which means to drink. It IS a godan verb, so it's a good example.
Take off the first part of nomu, so we get mu. Find mu in the Godan verbs list, and put it in! So it will look like:
NOMU, NOMU, NOMANAI, NOMI, NONDE, NONDA, NOMERU.
Wow, we've done a lot. We've seen the advanced Verb Chant Chart, we saw how we can add to it, and now we can add to it! Well done!
1) Is it する / くる ? Then it's an irregular verb.
2) Is it in the Godan Special list? Have a look!
3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
4) If your verb gets to this point, it's a godan verb.
Now, you may not know how to run a verb through the checklist. So I'll explain it to you now.
1) Is it する / くる ? Then it's an irregular verb.
So if the verb is する / くる, then your work is done. Look up to Irregular verbs in our table, and find the verb that you want!
2) Is it in the Godan Special list? Have a look!
It's the same as 1) - if it's in there, your work is done.
3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
Before you do anything, if your verb does not end in ru る, then skip this.
This is a little more complicated. Let's use TABERU (to eat) for our example.Look at taberu: たべる. It's made up of TA (which we'll ignore because it's not important for what we're about to do), BE and RU. If you split up the BE, you get B and E. Let's look at our checklist again: 3) Is it いる / える ? Then it's an Ichidan verb.
So we've got BERU. Take off the B, and we've got E RU (える). That's on the checklist! So, let's check this with our to sleep verb. NE is N and E. So it's ERU. And ERU is on the checklist! So we go to Ichidan verbs, and take off TABE for example, and replace it with our verb: NERU. So this is what the NERU like will look like on the checklist:
NERU, NERU, NERANAI, NE, NETE, NETA, NERARERU.
Yay, done!
4) If your verb gets to this point, it's a godan verb.
What happens if we have a verb that isn't an irregular, godan special or ichidan verb? We have a Godan verb. We do the same as what we do for 3). We'll use the verb nomu, which means to drink. It IS a godan verb, so it's a good example.
Take off the first part of nomu, so we get mu. Find mu in the Godan verbs list, and put it in! So it will look like:
NOMU, NOMU, NOMANAI, NOMI, NONDE, NONDA, NOMERU.
Wow, we've done a lot. We've seen the advanced Verb Chant Chart, we saw how we can add to it, and now we can add to it! Well done!
