Japanese Guide for Complete Beginners #4-2 – Ta Form

The Concise Guide to Japanese Verbs: Past Tense

This is my attempt to give you the most concise Japanese lesson in the world.

Today’s topic is verbs — the past tense.

We’ll quickly go over verb groups, their basic conjugations, and how to use the ta-form and te-form. Don’t worry — we’re not getting into anything too complicated. We’ll just go through some examples and get a feel for how it works.

Verb Groups Review


First, let’s review how verbs are divided. As mentioned in the previous lesson, Japanese verbs are grouped into three types: Ichidan verbs, Godan verbs, and irregular verbs.

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