When we want to show respect to the listener or the person we are talking about, we say O or GO before nouns or adjectives concerning that person. For example, SHIGOTO (work) becomes OSHIGOTO. GENKI ...

The most common way of telling the gender of a noun is by its ending, the last three or four letters of the word. There is a common theory that broad and slender endings can be used to denote the ...

You've learned there are two kinds of adjectives in Japanese, I-adjectives and NA-adjectives. I-adjectives end with the syllable I, such as YASUI "inexpensive." NA-adjectives take NA after them, when ...