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In general, you can drop everything except the jitsugo (verb or adjective most usually) if the other bits can be inferred. eg: Taberu (eat) or Hayai (fast) It
by DrPhish 10y ago
In general, you can drop everything except the jitsugo (verb or adjective most usually) if the other bits can be inferred.
eg: Taberu (eat) or Hayai (fast)
It sounds like cavemen talk if you translate it literally, but it is perfectly valid japanese
- klodolph 10y agoSyntactically we might call "hayai" a verb, which would then be translated as "is fast" rather than just "fast". Semantically, it is an adjective.