japanese is weird

[rmd]

how peculiar! you can conjugate adjectives in japanese.
freaky freaky freaky to my english-speaking brain.

Comments

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

#blink# Conjugate adjectives? That does sound odd. Declining them make sense (in many languages adjectives are declined so that they match the noun they go with), but I'm having trouble imagining what conjugating an adjective would even mean. Brain warp.

[clauclauclaudia]

Changing them between past and present and affirmative and negative, just like Japanese verbs. Only when they're predicate adjectives, not when they're modifying the noun they precede.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Ah, I get it. Still strange to someone not used to it, but I can wrap my brain around verb-agreement for predicate adjectives. Huh. Do any other languages do that? The few I know about make the predicate adjective agree with the subject, as they would for any other noun, not the verb.

I love you guys.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

You all is da bomb. すべて爆弾である。

"Perhaps *I* might be of assistance"

[wrog]

I'll note that I was already freaked out by the idea of having conjugations/declensions/whatever depend on relative social status and that the only correct way to say "No" when speaking to a social superior is to use some contortion like "It is adequate," and hope the person you're speaking to gets it.

Damn.  Now I need to go rent "Rising Sun" again.