notes

adverbs

• positional expressions (ex: 「うえ」 and 「そば」) are nouns
• 「喋るウサギを見たことがない。」
  • 「喋る」 describes 「ウサギ」
  • 「喋るウサギを見た」 describes 「こと」
  • “The thing of having seen a talking rabbit does not exist.”
• to turn an adjective into an adverb, change the い to a く
  • ex: 「早い」 -> 「早く」
• to turn a noun into an adverb, attach に
  • ex: 「静かに歩く」 means “to walk quietly”
• there are some words that are adverbs on their own
  • ex: 「ゆっくり」

    the も particle

• も is a non-logical particle that marks a topic like は
• the topic of the conversation changes to what も marks
• も says that the comment on the new topic is the same as the previous topic
• は is used to draw a distinction

  resources

• youtube