Special Expressions

🎯 Special Expressions

This section covers expressions that add specific nuances to your sentences, such as forcing someone to do something, things happening to you, or expressing uncertainty.

Topics Covered

  1. 🫵 Causative: Making/Letting someone do something.
  2. 🪞 Passive: Passive voice (was done by).
  3. 😤 Causative-Passive: Being made to do something.
  4. 🎩 Honorific and Humble Forms: Keigo .
  5. 😅 Unintentional Actions: Doing things by accident (~te shimau).
  6. 📦 Generic Nouns: Tokoro, Mono, Koto.
  7. 🤔 Certainty: Kamoshirenai, Nichigainai.
  8. 📏 Expressing Amounts: Dake, Shika, Hodo.
  9. 👂 Similarity and Hearsay: You, Mitai, Sou.
  10. ⚖️ Comparison: Comparing two things.
  11. 🚧 Non-feasibility: Impossible to do (~you ga nai).
  12. 📈 Tendencies: Garu, Gachi.
  13. 🎯 Advanced Volitional: Trying to do something (~you to suru).

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