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This lesson has been given by tashi on 2006 January the 3th 9pm EST.
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< Insert your absense explaination here kekekekeke>

Because of the sudden silenceness of the kekekekeke-sensei, tashi will be the subtitute for
tonight, so let's all give the floor to the subtitute teacher, tashi. And so, the class begin!
So tonight topic are: ichidan verbs! in the kudasai, nasai, and "let's " form!

---------------------------------------- [ Ichidan Verbs: Kudasai Conjugation ] ----------------------------------------

There are a couple types of verbs. one is ichidan, another is godan. 

	Ichidan verbs -ALL- have the last three letters iru or eru, 
	but just because a verb ends with iru or eru does NOT mean it is ichidan.

	The verb kaeru, to return home, ends with eru, but is godan,
	however, a verb that ends with su like hanasu, to speak, will NEVER be ichidan.

When learning verbs, you should note whether it is ichidan or godan if it ends with iru or eru.

Okay, so, once you have an ichidan verb, it's easy to conjugate it.  Conjugation is changing the 
form of the verb, as we'll see below. In Japanese the two different types of verbs, ichidan and godan, 
conjugate differently. In other words, you make the same form of the verb in a different way.  
Today we're only looking at ichidan verbs.

	miru			( is an ichidan verb)
	to see

The first step for conjugating an ichidan verb is to take off the ru at the end, leaving the root, mi.
To put the verb in -te kudasai form, to make a polite request, simply put -te kudasai after  the root.

	mite kudasai 
	please look

Another ichidan verb is 

	taberu
	to eat

If we wanted to put it in -te kudasai form, as with any form of an ichidan verb, first remove the -ru.
So we have the root, tabe left.  To say "please eat," we simply write tabete kudasai.
That's the -te kudasai form, used in general situations to say, "please somethingsomething."

	tabete kudasai
	please eat

------------------------------------------ [ Ichidan Verbs: Nasai Conjugation ] ------------------------------------------

Another command form is known as the nasai form.
Nasai comes from an honorific verb meaning "to do," while kudasai comes from an honorific verb 
meaning "to give."  While nasai doesn't translate to "please" like kudasai does, it is still an 
acceptable polite way to request things.  There are many forms less formal than it.

To conjugate an ichidan verb into nasai form, we first look at our verb. Let's use miru again.
We're conjugating it, so the first step, as always, is to remove ru. We now have the root, mi left.
To finish the nasai form, add "-nasai" to the end. "minasai"

	miru                  				(before conjugation)
	to see
	
	minasai 					(after conjugation)
	minasai is a command telling someone to look.

Now we'll look at taberu and put it into nasai form. It's ichidan and we want to conjugate it, so we 
take off the -ru first, just as with miru. We have the root, tabe left. To make it in nasai form, 
add nasai, giving us tabenasai, a command telling someone to eat.

	taberu                 				(before conjugation)
	to eat

	tabenasai					(after conjugation)
	tabenasai is a command telling someone to eat.

A question about nasai vs kudasai.  
Well one japanese person told me the only way civilized people give commands is using nasai...  
I think it's safe to say it's a little more elegant than just  "please do this" 
but it's not necessarily more polite.

I'm not sure if kekekeke has talked about the polite "let's (verb)" form, I'm assuming not, 
                                        but either way I'm teaching you the informal one right now ~_~

------------------------------------------- [ Ichidan Verbs: You Conjugation ] -------------------------------------------

To suggest an activity using an ichidan verb, you take off the ru and put "you" at the end.
After I finish the informal "let's" I'll give example sentences. Okay, so we have miru like always.. 
and we want to conjugate it. So we take off the -ru  Then we put -you on the end and get "miyou" 
being like "let's look." Right right.  

	miru                  				(before conjugation)
	to see
	
	miyou 						(after conjugation)
	let's look!

A good question about gomen kudasai and gomen nasai just came up. 
The questions are good btw <3 I like them :D gomennasai has become sort of a fixed expression, 
even though kudasai is so common elsewhere, but I'm rather certain I've heard gomen kudasai. 
I wouldn't say it all the time when I'm speaking normally, but to be a little different and fun I might 
use it. And a nice person named Lanthis gave me a url further explaining gomen kudasai.
					                     http://www.abcb.com/ency/g/gomen.htm 
It says: gomen
	gomen kudasai
1.  A statement of apology or admission of fault; "I'm sorry." Gomen kudasai is the more formal term.

Another common verb is neru, meaning to sleep. a sick child could be told either "nenasai" or 
"nete kudasai" so that they sleep and get healthy soon ! :X 
Verbs in japanese can be conjugated to be nearly full sentences on their own...

Now we'll get taberu to tabeyou by taking off the -ru and putting -you.
	tabeyou 
	let's eat!

A question regarding itadakimasu! I will answer it now.
"itadakimasu" is from the verb 'itadaku' which simply means "to receive."
It is said before meal times, but you would say, "ringo wo tabeyou!" to your friend.
"Let's eat apples!"  You wouldn't be able to fit itadaku in there at all, in that situation, that is.
However if you were sitting at a table and your family was having apples for supper.. 
You would just say "itadakimasu" before you ate as it's the custom.

Alright, some example fun sentences:

You're walking outside and you see your friend down by a forest. Your friend says, 
	"kore wo mite kudasai."

You, following his instructions, look at whatever "this" is. It turns out to be an elephant! (zou in Jpn)
You think the elephant looks pretty delicious, so you can say
	 "tabeyou"                       or 	"tabeyou ka" 
	  let's eat it			shall we eat it?

One of them is a suggestion as a statement, the other is a suggestion as a question, but the same 
meaning overall. Your friend does not think the elephant looks delicious, so he says,
	iie, demo, kimi ha zou wo tabenasai 
	no, but, you eat it

Oops.  Forgive my inconsistent romanization...
I spell the particle wa as "ha" and the particle o as "wo" the particle wa is read wa, but it is written 
with the hiragana for "ha" so some people like romanization it one way, and others the other. :X  
We'll cover this on the forums at some point soon.  :}

-------------------------------------------- [ Ichidan Verbs: Iru Conjugation ] ---------------------------------------------

Since an hour is a long time, we're adding on the -te iru verb conjugation.  I hope that's alright.. >_>
-te iru is like the gerund verb form in english, or the "-ing" form.

Let's do 
	neru
	to sleep.

We take off the -ru at the end, giving us ne, and then we add -te iru. I guess it's useful to point out... 
the -te form is "te" form for ichidan verbs (as opposed to various other end syllables for godan verbs, 
still giving the "te form"), so you could think of it as adding just iru to the -te form rather than te iru 
to the ichidan verb with ru removed. Like, to put neru in -te form, 
you take off the ru and put te, giving nete.

To say "please sleep" you put kudasai after the -te form. To say -ing you put iru after the te form. 
So: 	
	nete iru
	sleeping

My mom can yell at me:		osoi yo! nete kudasai
				It's late!  Go to sleep!
					osoi = late

And I could say:			kaasan, mou nete iru
				mom, I'm already sleeping
					kaasan = mother
					mou = already

taberu in te form is tabete, and adding iru makes it tabete iru.
	tabete iru
	eating

So, my friend didn't want the elephant, but if I were eating it, I could tell him by saying:
	 "zou wo tabete iru."

Something you should know is that the -te iru form is often shortened by removing the i.
Since it's just my friend, and I'm in a forest with an elephant carcass, I can be informal and say: 
	"zou wo tabeteru."

You could make the sentence longer by saying:
	"mori ni zou wo tabeteru"
	I'm eating an elephant in the forest.
		mori = forest

Oh.  On the subject of -te forms and such...  -te form is used for linking verbs together,
so if you wanted to say you saw an elephant AND ate it, you could say:
	"zou wo mite tabeyou"
	let's go look at and eat elephants

When you're linking verbs together, you keep all of them but the very last one in plain -te form.  
The last verb you conjugate to however you want to use it.
	"zou wo mite tabete kudasai"
	please look at and eat the elephant.

Ichidan verbs don't have many tricks, but don't let your guard down.
Godan verbs have lots more to remember... but if you know your hiragana alphabet it should help! :D

----------------------------------------------- [ Ichidan Verbs: Past Tense ] -------------------------------------------------

I think a nice note to end the lesson on will be past tense for ichidan verbs.
As you know from adjectives, the last letter of past tense adjectives is ta.
It's the same for ichidan verbs! You just take off the -ru and put -ta, and voila.  An ichidan verb in the 
past tense. Since I'm telling you this is past tense I should tell you also... everything until this point 
has been in the present/future tense. In Japanese, a word is either the past tense, or not past tense 
(meaning present or future tense).  Some examples of past tense ichidan verbs... 

	Dictionary form   ->	   root	    -> 	-ta form
		miru 	   -> 	    mi 	    -> 	  mita
		taberu 	   -> 	    tabe      -> 	  tabeta
		neru         -> 	    ne 	    -> 	  neta

	kyou zou wo mite tabeta
	today I saw and ate elephants
		kyou = today

Notice that the entire sentence is put into past tense because of the FINAL verb, and that mite is 
simply in -te form, and is in the past tense because the final verb is.

When you wake up, you can tell people:
	yoku neta
	I slept well

So, quick recap..
When you want to know if a verb is ichidan or godan, first look at how it ends in dictionary form.
If it is anything other than iru/eru, you know it is godan.
If it is iru or eru, you need to check a dictionary or another trusted source~
If you discover it is ichidan, then to conjugate it into any form, you remove ru and stick on the rest...
-te kudasai for polite request, -nasai for requests.
-you for informal suggestions, and -ta for plain past tense.

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If anyone has questions you may pm me (tashi) I hope the lesson was informative ~_~

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 ||  Homework  ||
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1. Rewatch any one the 4 Yan videos for review.

2. Re-read any one of the 4 Lesson for review.

3. Learn the remaining hiragana if you can.
	" ya, yu, yo, ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, wo, n "
	http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/hiragana_symbols.html

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