Honorifics in Japanese: A Complete Introduction to Keigo, Sonkeigo, and Kenjogo Honorifics play a huge role in the Japanese language. They define underlying power dynamics and help the speaker…
Expected Outcomes: ～そう When used with the verb stem そう expresses that something is likely to happen or be true based…
Other’s Desires: ～がる We need to be careful when talking about other people’s emotions or feelings—I’m talking grammatically here. Japanese makes…
Listing Actions & Descriptions (～たり) We can make partial lists nouns with the や and など particles, but what about verbs? Similarly to…