Casual contractions
Friends and family squash verb endings together: ～てしまう becomes ～ちゃう, ～ておく becomes ～とく and ～ている becomes ～てる. You hear these all day at home, and using them is the quickest way to stop sounding like a textbook. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 verbs in spoken form
Each card shows the verb, its spoken short form and a sentence you'd hear at home or out with family. Ten of the verbs are from Everyday Japanese 1.
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Full form and spoken form
Each short form is built on the て-form. If the て-form ends in で, the short form uses じゃ or ど instead.
| Full form | Spoken | Example |
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- Two feelings in ちゃった. "Oops" () or "all gone" (). The tone tells you which.
- で verbs. , , and have で in the て-form, so they take じゃう and どく: .
- といて = "do it now, for later". (leave it open), (get some in).
- Full forms for polite talk. At a shop or the school you'll hear and instead.
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Four patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.