Japanese/Verb conjugation table

Pronouncing and understanding Japanese phonetics is very easy if the basic foundations are learnt correctly before advancing to more evolved structure. For example, there are five sounds that can be represented by the 5 vowels ( in this order 'a' 'i' 'u' 'e' 'o' pronounced "a as in 'a bird'" "i pronounced 'ee' 'u like the first ooo in the sound a monkey makes "oo oo oo" "e said like the e in tech' and 'o said like as in knots') of the 26 letters of this language. These 5 sounds remain unchanged except for variations dictated by the prior consonant and semantics that indicate a brief pause or hold in the relative frequency.

All forms of a verb are derived from the root form of a verb. All verbs end in an 'u' sound. If it is 'ru' it is easy to conjugate; otherwise, there is a set of rules described somewhat in the below table.

Other forms of the copula can be obtained by replacing it with である.