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Dear Reader: In order to view all colored text and non-English text accurately, please ensure that the PUBLISHER DEFAULTS SETTING on your reading device is switched to ON. This will allow you to view all non-English characters and colored text in this book. —Tuttle Publishing Compiled by HIRŌ JAPANESE CENTER TUTTLE Publishing Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd. www.tuttlepublishing.com © 1989, 2013 by HJC International, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN: 978-1-4629-1336-7 (ebook) Distributed by: North America, Latin America and Europe Tuttle Publishing 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon VT 05759-9436 USA. Tel: 1(802) 773-8930 Fax: 1(802) 773-6993 Japan Tuttle Publishing Yaekari Building 3rd Floor 5-4-12 Osaki Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 1410032, Japan Tel: (81) 3 5437 0171 Fax: (81) 3 5437 0755 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction for the Revised Edition Introduction VERB GROUPINGS EXPLANATION OF VERB FORMS POLITE LANGUAGE: HONORIFIC AND HUMBLE SPEECH TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS A Guide to Japanese Verbs A List of Compound Verbs A List of Suru Verbs ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to thank the following people for their help with the publication of this revised book: first, our students, who in one way or another have both guided and prodded us to seek new and better approaches to teaching Japanese; and second, Thomas Manson and Tara Tudor, who were all kind enough to help out with the tedious job of proofreading. Special gratitude is due to Sandra Korinchak, senior editor of Tuttle Publishing for offering the opportunity to revise our original book published in 1989. Hitoshi Watanabe, Naomi Watanabe Takae Watanabe Hirō Japanese Center: Phone: +81-3-3444-3481 Fax: +81-3-3444-3483 E-mail: INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION Although there have been many changes made in this revised edition, there are a few we find of particular importance. In the prior edition, we used only the Roman alphabet to transcribe the example sentences. We found that our intermediate and advanced students prefer to use the native script. Therefore this edition includes example sentences in Hiragana, Katakana and Jōyō-Kanji, the 2,136 Chinese characters recommended for daily use. The second notable change is the revision to the compound verb section. The prior edition only provided examples of select compound verbs. The revised edition supplies the reader with verb endings that can be used with the pre—masu form as a stem to create customized compounds, allowing for flexibility in the student’s learning method. There are also many minor changes, such as the inclusion of Katakana-based loanwords (a very popular trend in Japanese speech in recent years) used as suru-verbs; we also revised the example sentences to better reflect the many changes made in modern-day society.