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The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs

ISBN-13: 9781568364162

Author(s): Taeko Kamiya

Subjects: CJB

Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha USA

Publication Date: 08-10-2012

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£25.00
The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs

About the book

For any beginner of Japanese, adjectives and adverbs are bound to present a challenge. Unlike English adjectives, Japanese ones conjugate, meaning that you must memorize their various forms before being able to build sentences of any complexity. Adverbs do not conjugate, but make use of particles to show their grammatical relationship to other words, and some have very subtle shades of meaning that are difficult to grasp. Moreover, many do not translate into adverbs in English.
The role these parts of speech play in adding flavor to the Japanese