Re: URL: Conjugation Builder by Satou.

Konrad Den Ende wrote:
(B> Jim Breen wrote: [come on, people ... I am getting tired of restoring 
(B> attributions,KWW]
(B>>Did you know that you can get conjugation tables for about 10,000
(B>>verbs in WWWJDIC? Just follow the "V" link when you display a
(B>>verb's entry.
(B> 
(B> 
(B> For some reason when i tried to search for "taberu" i only got
(B> "taber" as the longest sequence found (none of the two choices
(B> was "taberu"). I needed to enter "$B?)$Y$k(B" in order to find that.
(BThat's because you entered the string "taberu" with the button next to
(B"Keyword: (English, Japanese, French, etc.)" highlighted. If you enter
(B"taberu" with the button next to "Japanese Keyword in Romaji"
(Bhighlighted, it works as you would expect.
(B
(B> 
(B> Also, just by counting the number of conjugations, the table at your 
(B> site seems to contain less of them. Now, i suspect that isn't your
(B> laziness talking but i wonder how come "their" is bigger than "yours".
(B
(BJim has all the standard conjugations. Actually, a pretty wide range,
(Bincluding forms that some would quibble aren't verb conjugations at all
(B($B?)$Y$J$1$l$P(B, for example, which I view as a conditional form of the $B$$(B
(B-adjective $B?)$Y$J$$(B, but others hold to the rule that if it starts as a
(Bverb, all inflections are conjugations).
(B
(BThe verb-builder site referenced includes auxiliary verbs, which aren't
(Breally conjugations. As you progress in Japanese, you will find that the
(Blanguage is extremely rich in ways to connect verbs, and create new
(Bverbs as a result.
(B
(B
(B> 
(B> It would be nice not to have to "search a word" for every verb but
(B> simply jump through the tables to see the pattern emerge. Some
(B> examples would be nice too. The pure information is great too have
(B> too but hard to memorize, i'd say.
(B
(BIt's just a table. If you want an explanation, pick up a copy of
(B"Japanese Verbs at a Glance" by Naoko Chino.
(B
(BKWW