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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    2·
    25 days ago

    The radical for water is actually derived from the standalone kanji. It’s basically an extremely short-stroke version of the kanji.

    Ikimashou is just the ‘formal’, full-length version. No difference in meaning. Just as “iku” is the casual version of “ikimasu”.

    Ikimasu -> iku

    Ikimashou -> ikou

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Fascinating. That explains the similarity. Since watching that episode of Witch Watch I definitely feel bad about my formal “Duolingo” Japanese :D

      By the way, is there a rule to how these short forms are formed?

      • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
        2·
        18 days ago

        By the way, is there a rule to how these short forms are formed?

        Yep! Most Japanese verbs (with a few exceptions like ‘shimasu’ becoming suru) use one of the ‘i’ variants (‘i’, ‘ki’, ‘ni’, ‘mi’, or ‘ri’) after the kanji, that indicates they are verbs.

        Yakimasu (to burn/ cook), shirimasu (to know), arukimasu (to walk), arimasu (to be), shinimasu (to die), yomimasu (to read).

        Ki will become ku in the shortened version, ri will become ru, ni -> nu, etc:

        yaku, shiru, aruku, aru, shinu, yomu

        I believe the verbs that don’t end in one of those like tabemasu (to eat) will default to ‘ru’ (taberu), but I don’t know if that’s a rule off the top of my head, or if I just can’t think of any others right now.

        In the cases where rendaku applies, such as oyogimasu (to swim), the end kana will also have rendaku applied, e.g. oyogu. Ki -> ku, gi -> gu.

        • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
          2·
          25 days ago

          Do you teach this usually? These explanations seem very practiced (in a good way).

          Thanks a lot, maybe this will help me sound at least somewhat casual :D