Basic Sentence Patterns in Japanese

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Scenario and Vocabulary

First Pattern
... Questions and Emphasis
... Negations
... Past Tense
... Past Tense Negations

Supposition, Deduction and Appearance

Plain Speaking

Existence, Animate

Existence, Inanimate

Ownership

Coming and Going

Intransitive Verbs
... Supposition

Transitive Verbs
... Doing Things

Conjunctions

Continuous Action
... Starting
... Finishing

Simultaneous Action

Consecutive Actions

Just Doing, Just Done

Conditionals

Excuses, Explanations and Reasons

Noteworthy Experience

Giving and Receiving

Invitations

First-Person Wants

Likes, Dislikes, Preferences, Skills, Pains

Comparisons

Easy, Difficult, Excessively

Appearances and Deductions

Hearsay

Weather Forecasts

Orders, Instructions and Prohibitions

Possibility and Impossibility

Strange Foreign Names