Creating Partial Lists (や, など, とか) We know we can connect nouns with the と particle like so: 野菜やさいと 魚さかなと 牛乳ぎゅうにゅうと 水みず。 Vegetables and fish and milk…
State of Completion (てある) Not to be confused with the present participle, this structure combines the te form with the verb “to…
Nominalising Verbs (こと) The ability to nominalise verbs is arguably the single piece of grammar that lets us move away from…
Simultaneous Actions: ～ながら vs ～間に We have two basic ways of expressing simultaneous actions in Japanese, e.g. “I ate dinner while watching television”.…