This is part 2 of the て form series, part 3 of the verbs series, and part 7 of the core grammar series! What a mouthful! If you enjoyed this video and would like to get access to bonus content like worksheets and lessons, consider supporting me on Patreon! www.patreon.com/JouzuJuls Also we've recently rebranded the Discord server so come on over to be part of the Jouzu Gumi community! discord.gg/UaDRc9fR4U

this video explained て-form better than my Japanese teacher LMAO

Thank you for carrying the legacy of Cure Dolly sensei. She left enormous shoes to fill, but you doing a spectacular job filling them.

I love these Cure Dolly-like explanations. 😭 I hate how westerners force Indo-European grammar onto Japanese and make it look so complicated and illogical, when it's nothing like that. Japanese grammar is extremely logical and easy. What usually throws us off is the expression strategy which in Japanese can be completely different than what we're used ot.

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Learning Japanese, it blows my mind just how complicated English actually and how 80% of Americans don’t even think much about it, thanks for your videos!

The way you explain stuff just makes it work in my brain. This method is so much more easier to understand than forcing english meanings on them! Thank you for making these videos

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TIL でも is just で (the て form of です) and も (as in "also"). Mind blown.

My Japanese grammar knowledge is always so much better after watching theses videos. Great job 👍

one of the very few channels where I clicked "all" on the notification bell. Everything in these videos are just perfect. THANK YOU

I can't wait for u to explain 他動詞 and 自動詞, cuz im curious wat the difference between 止める and 止まる

This video is too powerful. I've been struggling to understand this て-form for a long time, but this 18 minute video made me understand it.

My favorite thing in language learning is understanding the WHY, thank you very much for this video please make more!!!

I was just rewatching some of your other videos wondering when this would be released, thank you for continuing in the footsteps of Cure Dolly sensei to teach us Japanese in its natural form. Your videos along with her’s make it so much easier to understand the structure and grammar of Japanese

You have a very concise way of explaining complicated subjects. Thank you, it really does help a lot. Greetings from Mexico, and congratulations on reaching N1.

I didn't realize your channel grew so much since last time I checked, you deserve it all, keep it up!

This is the most informative Japanese video I've seen literally ever. Seriously, great job 👍

I’ve never said なるほどね louder than I did just now 😂. For real, this was phenomenal ❤

THANK YOU! Finally a good guide on te-form. I've been looking for this. Thank you Jouzu.

that changing te-form to combine words with mi or ri for example expanded my japanese knowledge like a sledgehammer opens up a wall.

Can someone please buy this guy's Patreon? I can't because I'm unemployed and living in a poor country, but when I get a job, I'll definitely buy it.

Thank you so much, i love this. Not only the explanation, but the video in itself is extremely well done!

Thank you for the video! Clearly broke down how te form works. Going to give your other videos a watch and use as study resource alongside my classes.

Another fantastic video. I am constantly getting aha! moments from your grammar videos.

these are always so helpful

You got me into using your anki set and i've never progressed so quickly, thanks

The quality of this video is pretty much unmatched by any grammar videos out there! Thanks for this explanation!

Phenomenal video! Thanks for continuing cure dolly’s work 👍

Thank you for making this video. I paused learning Japanese for awhile now and this video really motivates me to come back. You explained it very well and I immediately subscribed. 👍🏻🙇🏻

Your videos have been so helpful! Not only is your editing out of this world, you also manage to explain seemingly complex subjects in an effortlessly clear manner. The use of colours for different conjugations is genius, it really helps to differentiate them instantly. I also appreciate how you translate the example sentences in a literal way, using the same train compartments Cure Dolly sensei used. This shows the underlying structure of the Japanese language and it makes so much sense! I've discovered your channel just recently, and I was shocked to see you didn't have +100K subscribers, even though the content and the quality of your videos is off the charts. I feel like KZfaq doesn't know how to categorise your videos properly, leading to them getting buried by the algorithm. It's such a shame! So here I am, liking and commenting to boost engagement in the hope that more people can find your amazing channel. Don't get discouraged, I'm sure you'll grow to greater heights! And thank you for continuing Cure Dolly's legacy, she will be missed.

you have no idea how much your videos help me with grammar I swear. thank you so much for the hard work to make them 🫶

Great vid!

thanks, i love your videos on japanese grammar. they really help and usually save up a bunch hours of studying (even though i might spend hours rewaching the video)

Thanks for your hard work fam !

いつも通り マジでありがとうございます

Bro's editing goes hard as always. Thanks for the vid! Has helped me after reading Tofugu's grammar guide on ている

These videos make me proud of callign Juls sensei! Can't wait for the next. I Couldn't understand Dolly's video on Tadoushi and Jidoushi :b

Thanks for all of your hard work that goes into these videos. I hope your mental health has seen an improvement in these last few months ♥️

I’m a native Japanese speaker and this is giving me an extra level up of Japanese comprehension

This is literally the third video that I've watched from your channel and surely the KZfaq algorithm must be drunk your videos are so well made and you deserve much more reconnection for that By the way new subscriber here That video of yours about Japanese language verbs got my atention Thanks 👍

Hi, great job on the explanation. I'm new to the channel, so I don't know what your stance is on covering colloquial speech. But I think in this case it's worth mentioning that ている often gets shortened to てる in spoken Japanese. (Similarly, ていく gets shortened to てく, but this is less common). People are definitely going to come across this shorter form, and might not realize it's the same thing.

The infinite grammar points is why I struggled finding concrete sources for just particles to put on a cheat sheet. One reference would give me a selection and when I went looking for other example sentences or went to try and validate the ones I made, I was given a different answer and more/less points. But I had started to notice when I started N3 grammar that I would guess at what the point meant, I would get it right, and then the explanation would leave me scratching my head.

Thank you. I'm N2 level teaching my husband N5 (and soon N4 level) and this video will help him a lot!

Your edits make the videos so damn engaging

Just realized this is a concept I had already broken down unknowingly through years of listening. It's really affirming to have it explained like this!! You've successfully inflated my ego and inspired me to study more lol

My friend Jouzu, I can't understand why you don't have more followers, your videos are amazing I'm just stunned. Please keep it going!

I've watched all of Cure Dolly's videos, but when you said は = 'exclusive topic marker' and も = 'inclusive topic marker' that was such a concise and elegant way to sum up all the は/も thing. It also cleared up to me the ては and ても use, seeing it as は/も applies to the clause and て existing as a clause connector anyway as it would usually do. They are not applying to a noun but they really are doing what they are doing. The whole video and the て/い-stem comparison, it really is great. You're able to follow in Cure Dolly's footsteps and continue her work, thank you for all of it.

Thanks for sharing 👍

Your vid was recommended to me randomly, and I gotta say this is great, definitely building on the cure dolly style , which is great, because I'm one of the people who couldnt get over the voice

助かる！ありがとう！

Jouzu Juls has a gift for explaining Japanese grammar in a clear, engaging and entertaining manner!

I have watched a few Cure Dolly videos but my ADHD brain has difficulty concentrating on them for some reason. These are a lot easier for me to follow. I really appreciate you making them!

Terima kasih banyak atas penjelasannya, 大変役に立つ！And thank you for continuing the legacy of Cure Dolly Sensei.

Yeah my friend group has completely ruined my perception of the word “come” and subsequently the ability to watch a video like this like a mature and functioning adult.

ありがと

Great Video!

i like the way you use american style memes with the anime examples, this make the video so interesting and help me understand japanese more

Wish there was a korean channel for every 50th good Japanese channel

7:24 すげえ, amazing example!

Thank you so much, these lessons are really helpful. Could you please share where we can practice these concepts

this opens my mind on how complicated english is, english is not my first language, but my native language and english have similar phonology so i dont have a hard time speaking it even though i hardly speak it irl, its only the "th" sound, usually replaced with "t" or "d" when my mouth refuse to pronounce the "th" sound, im so glad now that i grew up watching english contents cuz id never want to go through the nightmare of learning english

i could feel a physical 'click' in my brain when you explained the scenario with 繰り回す.

あなた が 思い方 いい です よ! I love your content, please tell me the best methods to learn how to speak japanese naturally as a native

hey there - thanks for another super helpful video! as usual, the editing is 👌 have been lurking on your channel for awhile now, and wanted to lyk that you've singlehandedly restarted my japanese-learning journey after i hit a bit of a slump w not having the right resources, motivation, etc. to sufficiently self-teach. i'm still a beginner (only one year in), but thanks to you i've started watching cure dolly's videos (in lieu of the grammar guide i was previously using, which had many holes in it) and have found plenty of beginner-friendly resources to pick up where i left off. have since been motivated like never before, srsly anyways, i have a p similar language background to you (i'm chinese american) and i can't understate how helpful your channel has been. def only a matter of time before you blow up, so j wanted to leave my sincere thanks here - also, congrats on sitting the n1 exam! 加油! 頑張ってください！

Amazing! Agree. The other thing people MASSIVELY overcomplicate is verb declensions. They’ll say something like, in potential form, く goes to ける, む goes to める, るgoes to れる, etc etc but it’s all just one change: “-u to -eru”! Similar thing with other verb forms. Grammar books are often not written logically

THANK YOU MY KINGGGGG

This dude has made me appreciate Japanese Grammar.... which I thought I would never understand... thanks Jouzu Juls

to shake + to twist = to flail around Makes sense

I will say that this really is a good video at pointing out the fact that most grammar points are just words we know but smushed together only, it really does make Japanese a lot simpler when you look at it from that way. I really do think that it’s a shame that most learners will learn the wrong way per say, I don’t get why it’s common to create textbooks or websites that don’t actually teach these kinds of ways. I almost gave up at multiple points until I finally decided to bite the bullet and give cure dolly sensei a try and it was the best decision ever, you too are great at making light of the fact too since many people like the old me think that her voice was strange, really creepy avatar and just not as “interactive” as videos nowadays so I hope that you can be like the modern day cure dolly sensei, it can definitely be hard to watch some of her videos since it kinda slow and stuff but with your editing skills, I feel like you can keep people’s attention way more. Also I would like to ask a question about でしょう ,だろう. I know that it’s the volition form of です and だ but what does it actually mean, can’t get that wrapped around my head and also about the ていた point in the video, you said that we can’t treat it as “was watching tv” since it’s a A is B sentence whereas the Japanese one it the other one, but the FUNDAMENTAL MEANING is still “was watching tv” right? If so then can I treat it like it’s that? I do know that the structure is different but the meaning is still the same.

I've always thought that grammer points could be broken down. It's nice to see my suspicions confirmed. I love knowing the core of words. Like it blew my mind that かった is a contraction for く+あり. So like 寒かった is a contraction of 寒くあった. Stuff like that really helps me remember.

This is a very well made and thought out video. Well done! It's great and explains the concept very well. One point I have is that the furigana is romaji while the rest of the sentence is hiragana. It just made the sentences feel a bit inconsistent considering there is no romaji furigana for the hiragana. I think it would be better if the furigana for the kanji was hiragana, or if there was romaji furigana placed over all characters to bring some consistency. Other than that this video is amazing.

Hello. Thank you for your new great video. Overall, I agree with your explanations (except some things like your interpretation of the は particle in your "bread example" that I disagree, as I've already explained it by commenting another video). Indeed, we can understand ている structure as "being/existing in the state of...", an interpretation I understood thanks to some textbooks I've read. Thanks to that, I could understand many sentence patterns, like 起きています or 死んでいる. Yes, understanding basic structures lets us understand more complex ones that use those more basic "jigsaw pieces". But there are some limits. You already talked about the ていく structure: the first time we see it, we can't guess for sure that it can have a "figurative meaning", so we have to learn that meaning. As for ては pattern, even if we know the meanings of て and は, first time we can't guess that this pattern expresses some "negative consequences" (and that is why this is also used in order to express obligation or prohibition, an "if we don't do that, something bad would occur" meaning), so we have to learn it. About your パンは食べた example, as I've already explained it, I disagree: I think it does not mean "Bread is the only thing I ate", but rather "What I did to the bread is eating it", which does not necessarily means that I ate bread only. If bread was the only thing I ate, instead of は particle, we should have used だけ or しか. However, there is indeed an "exclusive" feeling when using the は particle, but not on the way you said: it just means that the "eating" information in that sentence is in the limit of "bread" field, but one more time, I think that does not mean that bread is the only thing I ate, because after this sentence, I could add other sentences, like チーズも食べた ("I ate cheese too"). This は particle acts like a "pointer" thing, like a laser pointer, that shows us who or what is concerned by the information I give at the end of the sentence, but in my opinion that does not mean that I ate only the thing I pointed on. By doing that, we focus on the information we give about that bread, without necessarily saying bread is the only thing that is concerned by this information of having being eaten. About "compound words" and more specifically "compound verbs", some "て + verbs" are considered as "verbs", like 出てくる, 持っていく, etc. So, I'm not sure this is a real difference between "ren'yôkei + verb" and "te + verb" patterns. In fact, what we call "te form" does not really exist itself, because we get this pattern by adding て on the 連用形 (ren'yôkei) form of verbs. For example, ren'yôkei of 話す is 話し, so when we add て (*), we have 話して. As for so-called "irregular verbs" する and くる, their "te form" is actually completely "regular": their ren'yôkei are し and き respectively, which gives して and きて. Same for the ichidan verbs: we get their ren'yôkei by dropping out their る okurigana, and then we add て. Same for the adjectives that end with "i" sound: their ren'yôkei ends with く, and then we add て, and it is also possible to link clauses inside a sentence with just the adjectives in their ren'yôkei without て, like 彼女は美しく、頭がいいです ("She is pretty and clever"). But as for the other Godan verbs that are not ending with す, they became "irregular" by getting an alternative ren'yôkei form by phonetic changes. There are even some compound words that are using those alternative ren'yôkei forms without て, like きっかけ (切っ掛け, instead of きりかけ) or ふんばる (踏ん張る, instead of ふみばる), or かいくぐる (掻い潜る, instead of かきくぐる), or おって (追っ手, instead of おいて, or shoud I say "instead of おひて" because the original form of 追う is 追ふ). The main difference between "ren'yôkei link" or "て link" when linking clauses in one sentence, is a stylistic one: て sounds more natural and "spoken language", whereas ren'yôkei sounds more literary and "written language". Of course, some patterns like ていく or ている cannot be replaced by just the ren'yôkei: て is mandatory. And like you said, some compound verbs that are using just ren'yôkei, cannot be replaced by their "te forms". Anyway, thank you for your video. I can't wait the next one! (*) And て itself is probably the ren'yôkei form of つ, an archaic auxiliary or jodôshi (助動詞) that describes a "completed" state or action. Nowadays, the auxiliary た (which comes from たり) "absorbed" all ancient "past/completion" auxiliaries of classical Japanese, as well as their functions.

This guy definitely watch the curedolly series Edit: Nevermind, just got to *that* part of the video

Awesome video! I just have one question. Do you think it's beneficial to memorise the prefectures and towns in japan even if it's not frequent in immersion or would my efforts be better spent on something else? I just have mixed thoughts on sentence mining those kinds of subject matters.

This blew my mind, the spirit of Cure Dolly is in you !

Wow, it’s almost same as Turkish grammar (me happy)

the way particles work in japanese is beginning to telling me of the way we define context free grammars in computer language parsing.

This vid literally came after me being confused about the te form what timing

Hey, thanks for your answer on my other question. I got one more: If im done with the 3k/6k anki deck (Your version of it), what deck should I go for next?

Dang jouzu juls you've done it again! Even tho i know the て form and other stuff about it it still amazes me how simple and lego like japanese is i mean really textbooks and apps are just criminal compared to your videos and cure dolly

finally!!!

Wait! So you're telling me that でも actually originates from the て form of です + も @11:17?!?! Mind = BLOWN 🤯 Also, is that outfit a reference to Orihara Izaya? 😏

Here is the difference of 始める and 始まる a move-word is a 動詞 that denotes an action or a movement. 始める is a "other-move" verb so for example if i said "パソコンを始める" it means that i start up my computer so i am causing something *else* to start and 始まる is a "self-move" verb so if i were to say "私が始まる” it means that i am starting myself which sounds ridiculous so i cause *myself* to start jouzu juls feel free to correct me on this i've watched cure dolly's video on that and i am certain that this is correct

Thank you so much for @5:21, now I can enjoy this in peace.

Hey, I just joined to paid at the join button, where do i find membership information? Paetron?

This is so powerful. Thank you!

“having woken up” coneys both the meanings you discuss at 3:08 but this video was very useful nevertheless

Can you review N4 or N3 test for this 7 july jlpt test

I feel like the way u explained ている was making it difficult I personally think if transitive means -ing if intransitive ur describing a current state and if it's transitive with an frequency adverb mean I have been doing

This is the best Japanese grammar explanation video I’ve ever seen! I’ve been in Japanese classes where the teacher explains for ages and I still don’t get the point. Love this content, keep it up !!

Dude just found a way to make japanese easy

basically, ~teiru means in the state of ....

btw いる are moveble things and ある not you can say to a running car 車がいる*can also mean needing a car　to a parked one you say 車がある

good video but have to disagree about calling ている and other things "not grammar". Lexicogrammar is, put simply, the idea that words and grammar exist in a spectrum rather than a binary, and is the prevailing approach among linguists. ている is a fine example of this very concept.

Why do I need now to terraform a Japanese garden in Minecraft?

Didn't understand the point with 雨が降ってくる - rain fall come. Is it like rain started to rain?

いる is "is" as in "there is a dog", ”犬がいる". It's used for things that can move on their own. "犬は見る" is "the dog watches" or "the dog will watch". How do you say the dog /is/ watching? ”犬は見ている". It's literally "is" and "watching", one after the other, just like in English but in the opposite word order. People often translate the て form as the ”-ing" form because both lack past/present tense information.

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I have no doubt that everything you're saying is true and helpful, but I'd be lying if I said it isn't a monster amount of information to comprehend at once. Guess it doesn't work for everyone... great work nonetheless!