Plain form

or dictionary
form

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When do we use plain

form?
Informal situations
Dictionaries verbs are
always written in their
plain form in dictionaries.
As part of more complex
grammar patterns

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Changing verbs to plain

form
First you need to decide if
the verb is Ichidan, Godan
or irregular. We already
learnt how to do this
when we learnt form.

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Ichidan verbs
Remove and add
For example:

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Godan Verbs
For Godan verbs you need
to understand the lines
and the rows of the
hiragana chart.

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This is the a line

of the hiragana chart
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This is the u line

of the hiragana chart
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This is the m~ row

of the hiragana chart
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This is the s~ row

of the hiragana chart
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Godan Verbs
Now that you understand
the lines and rows of a
hiragana chart we can
change godan verbs to
plain form
Remove and change
the character before
to the line of the same
row of the hiragana chart
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For example:
The last character before
is
Find the row of the
hiragana chart that is
in
Then change it to the
character that is in the
same row but is also in
the u line.
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Row that is in
line

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So

becomes

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What will
become?
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So

becomes

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Irregular Verbs

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