A couple of my friends have asked me about verbs recently: about verb groups, or dictionary forms, or negative conjugations. I have made some Gflash card sets to kick off about verb groups and dictionary forms. You can find them by searching for Ishi No Ue in the Gflash catalogue, or if you have a [...]
Particles are a prick. They are a very different way to organise a grammar for an English speaker. The classic is “what is the difference between は and が?”, and to a lesser extent “when should I use に or で?”
As far as は and が go there are various explanations on their differences. The [...]
Keiko’s post included this 案にたがわず which made me think, “w.t.f. is たがわず?”
It is one of those ず negatives. If you don’t know the grammar, then it is formed the same way as a normal negative, but you swap ～ない for ～ず. As an aside, the same applies for ～ぬ to make a negative.
Group 1 verbs [...]