Noun

Selected grammar patterns related to Nouns

1. Core Sentences: Verb/Adjective/Noun desu (non-past, formal) (2-1 BTS 1)
2. Negative questions with [noun desu] or Adjectives (3-2 BTS 12)
3. Sentence + でしょうか (4-1 BTS 2)
4. Sentence でしょう？ (5-2 BTS 2)
5. Colors (adjective and noun forms) (6-3 BTS 11)
6. Describing people: 背が高い・背が低い人 (6-3 BTS 13)
7. Appearance (〜そう) (8-5 BTS 2)
8. だろう (8-5 BTS 13)
9. Polite equivalent of [Nounです] Nounでいらっしゃいます・Nounでございます (polite) (10-3 BTS 6)
10. Assertion + じゃない (10-6 BTS 14)
11. で at the beginning of a Sentence (12-3 BTS 8)
12. Nounでは・じゃ+ いけない・だめ・よくない・まずい (13-4 BTS 12)
13. Nounでも (14-6 BTS 20)
14. Plural Nouns: 〜たち・がた・ら (17-1 BTS 2)
15. Noun + によると (17-4 BTS 8)
16. X による: Depending on X (17-5 BTS 11)
17. Nounだって (17-6 BTS 14)
18. Nounにしては・も (18-1 BTS 2)
19. Nounらしい (18-3 BTS 8)
20. Description + 風に (18-5 BTS 11)
21. [Sentence + か] as a Noun (18-5 BTS 12)
22. 〜としては・も (19-1 BTS 3)
23. Xなりに：XなりのY (21-2 BTS 2)
24. Xというと (21-2 BTS 3)
25. Exclusivity: Noun + ばかり・ばっかり (22-2 BTS 3)
26. Special humble nouns: 拝借 (22-3 BTS 7)
27. Noun + さえ〜ば (22-3 BTS 8)
28. Xに関して (23-6 BTS 8)
29. Xに始まって、Y、Z (23-6 BTS 9)
30. XにYに (24-2 BTS 3)
31. XはもとよりY、Z (24-2 BTS 4)
32. X（を）始め・Y、Z (24-3 BTS 6)
33. XまたはY (24-4 BTS 9)

External resources for practicing conjugation

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Noun desu Conjugation charts

Formal	affirmative	negative
Non-past	N desu	N ja nai desu N ja arimasen
	2-1 (BTS 1)
Past	N deshita	N ja nakatta desu N ja arimasen deshita
	4-1 (BTS 1)

 

Informal	affirmative	negative
Non-past	N (drop desu)	N ja nai
	2-5 (BTS 18)
	N da
	3-4 (BTS 18)	2-6 (BTS 25)
Past	N datta	N ja nakatta
	4-3 (BTS 14)

 

te form	affirmative	negative
Non-past	N + de	N janakute
	5-1 (BTS 1)