A Logical Japanese Grammar

Welcome to my "A Logical Japanese Grammar" page. I would like to introduce wonderful and logical Japanese grammar. Japanese has a strange grammar that is quit different from most European languages. However, you can easily understand and be familiar with it after you know the simple and logical grammar of Japanese. It has a few exceptions and uniformed rules. I hope this article helps you learn Japanese more deeply.

I am sorry I am still constructing these pages and columns. There might be many blanks but I will update them frequently. I am happy you may check this page once a week.

• Let's go to the table of contents.
• Please feel free to link this page "http://homepage3.nifty.com/jgrammar/".
• You can get a PDF version from this package.
• Interesting topics about Japanese Grammar コラム統計計算文法考 ( Jun.22/2011 )

• What's new.
  • A Proposal for Romanization of Japanese extending Hepburn System (Jun.10/2012)
  • Readings of Kanji ( Oct.27/2001, Jun.22/2011 )
  • Kanji Cards ( Dec.29/2003, Jun.22/2011 )

• Pronunciation
  • Phonemes ( Dec.7/ 2002 )
  • Syllables ( Dec.7/ 2002 )
  • Accents ( Dec.7/ 2002 )
• Loan Words from English
  • English Phonemes ( Dec.07/2002 )
  • Rules to Kana Syllables ( Dec.07/2002 )
  • Samples ( Dec.07/2002, Jul.03/2006 )
• Introduction
  • Parts of Speech ( Dec. 8 2002 )
  • Word Orders ( Dec. 8 2002 )
  • Correspondence of Pronouns, Cases, Articles, Interrogatives ( Dec.09/2002 )
• Nouns, Adjectival Nouns, Verbal Nouns
  • Ordinary Nouns ( Dec.10/2002 )
  • Adjectival Nouns ( Dec.10/2002 )
  • Verbal Nouns ( Dec.11/2002 )
  • Numerals and Classifiers ( Dec.11/2002 )
• Verbs, Adjectival Verbs, Auxiliary Verbs
  • The Verbal Conjugation ( Dec.14/2002 )
  • Polite ( Dec.18/2002 )
  • Negative ( Dec.18/2002 )
  • Tense ( Dec.18/2002 )
  • Mood ( Dec.18/2002 )
  • Existence ( Dec.28/2002 )
  • Copula ( Jan.14/2003 )
  • Adjectival Verbs ( Jan.18/2003 )
  • Voices ( Feb.01/2003, Apr.06/2003 )
  • Auxiliary Verbs ( May.23/2003 )
  • Moving and Giving Verbs ( May.27/2003 )
  • Supplemental Verbs ( Jun.30/2003 )
• Particles (Jul.14/2003)
  • Case Particles (Jul.27/2004)
  • Nominal Particles (Sep.04/2004)
  • Topical Particles (Mar.28/2005)
  • Adverbial Particles
  • Ending Particles
  • Conjunctive Particles
  • Interjective Particles
• Conjunctives, Interjections
  • Conjunctives
  • Interjections
• Demonstrative
• Adnominal, Adverbs
  • Adverbs to modify Verbs
  • Adnominal To modify Nouns
• Special Topics
  • Readings of Kanji ( Oct.27/2001, Jun.22/2011 )
  • Kanji Cards ( Dec.29/2003, Jun.22/2011 )
  • Uniformed Regular Verbal Conjugation of Japanese ( Oct.14/2001, Nov.12/2005 )
  • A Japanese Conjugation Builder ( Oct.19/2003, Jan.01/2006 )
    • Download the package for your local PC.
  • Columns about Japanese Statistical Grammar (written in Japanese) ( Jan.29/2008 )

  Java Applets are designed for JRE 1.3.1 and over in "Kanji Cards" and "A Japanese Conjucation Builfer".

Special Thanks to

• Japanese Language ( http://japanese.about.com/ )
• A Japanese guide to Japanese grammar ( http://www.guidetojapanese.org/ )
• Japanese for the Western Brain ( http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/index.html )
• Kotoba no Sanpo-michi ( http://homepage1.nifty.com/forty-sixer/kotoba.htm )
• Nihon-go ni shugo 'wa iranai ( http://blog.goo.ne.jp/shugohairanai )
• CAJLE home page ( http://www.jliu.org/CAJLE/ )

Interesting Topics

• Jim Breen's Japanese Page ( http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html )
• Collin's Japanese Language & Culture Page ( http://www.epochrypha.com/japanese/ )
• Japanese in the Age of Technology ( http://www.honco.net/japanese/index.html )
• Omniglot ( http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm )

• Jun.22/2011 : Support new daily used kanji table published in 2011 by Japanese national body (Readings of Kanji, Kanji Cards)
• Sep.27/2006 : Append new 493 characters for human names to Kanji Cards by 2004 cabinet instruction
• Jul.03/2006 : Increase the number of samples to spell loan words from English with KATAKANA

• Dec.07/2002 : This new site starts