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MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks agoThanks for the feedback, seems my efforts weren’t entirely wasted :D Interesting, that the Kanji for water itself does not contain that rqficale (unless you squint heavily) What’s the difference to Ikkimashou? Isn’t that the suggestive form? As in ‘we should go’
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The radical for water is actually derived from the standalone kanji. It’s basically an extremely short-stroke version of the kanji.
Ikimashou is just the ‘formal’, full-length version. No difference in meaning. Just as “iku” is the casual version of “ikimasu”.
Ikimasu -> iku Ikimashou -> ikou
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Fascinating. That explains the similarity. Since watching that episode of Witch Watch I definitely feel bad about my formal “Duolingo” Japanese :D
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Yep! Most Japanese verbs (with a few exceptions like ‘shimasu’ becoming suru) use one of the ‘i’ variants (‘i’, ‘ni’, ‘ki’, or ‘ri’) after the kanji, that indicates they are verbs. Yakimasu (to burn/ cook), shirimasu (to know), arukimasu (to walk), arimasu (to be), shinimasu (to die). Ki will become ku in the shortened version, and ri will become ru, ni -> nu: yaku, shiru, aruku, aru, shinu.
I believe the verbs that don’t end in one of those like tabemasu (to eat) will default to ‘ru’ (taberu), but I don’t know if that’s a rule off the top of my head, or if I just can’t think of any others right now.
In the cases where rendaku applies, such as yogimasu (to swim), the end kana will also have rendaku applied, e.g. yogu. Ki -> ku, gi -> gu.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Do you teach this usually? These explanations seem very practiced (in a good way).
Thanks a lot, maybe this will help me sound at least somewhat casual :D