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So far on this thread I've seen some of the basic sentence structures. Lets recap!

Basic Sentences: Simple description Patterns
Basically basic sentences utilizing wa, kore, sore, are, dore, ano, kono, sono, dono, no, and wo.

ex.) Watashi wa Kikyo desu; kore wa boku no enpitsu desu; ano hito wo koroshimasu!!!! etc.

Wa particle: Used to mark the subject of the sentence. Usually at the beginning.

kore sore are dore: words used to mark how far away the object is. Takes place as the unknown subject.

kono sono ano dono: words used to mark how far away the known object is. Used before the subject noun.

no particle: Used to mark possession. The entire possession combo can be considered as the subject.


These are the kinds of sentence structures I've been seeing so far....so lets spice things up a bit.

ii-adjectives: I'm sure most of you should know these by now. i-adjectives make up most of the adjectives used in the Japanese language. They of course mostly end with an i at the end and have certain rules when using them. Using them to describe sentences is easy. Just add them before the noun. Polite form is simple: just add a desu at the end like you do with a regular sentence. Plain form is even simpler: just omit the Desu altogether. Ex.) Tanoshii, ureshii, kanashii, sabishii, kibishii,yasui, takai, etc.

Na-adjectives: These adjectives make up the remainder of what is used in the Japanese language. They don't use i except for a choice few and the difference is simple to remember. Most na adjectives are actually katakana words as well. when describing nouns, you add na next them, which is why they are called na- adjectives. Like ii-adjectives, in polite form just add desu. in plain form, you add da, which is the plain form of desu. ex.) Kirei (one of the specials...means pretty.)) hansamu; benri (Another one), fuben, takusan, etc.

Now something a little interesting. As you know there are rules in the japanese language, and why exclude these adjectives? Now they all have something to do with plain form and dealing with past tense and conjunctions with other adjectives.

ii-adj.: In past plain form, these adj. are transformed pretty easily. Just chop off the i and add katta. remember, the shi syllable is pronounced quickly and should sound like "shh~" when saying the word.

na-adj.: much more simple. Just go and add datta to the end of the adj.

Adjectives in Te-form: just means adj. plus something else. Used to say the object is blank, and blank.

ii-adj.: Te-form is simple. chop off the i and kutte.

Na-adj.: add de to the end of the adj.

Not so hard right?

Past plain form is just the plain form of the adjective in past tense. For ii adjectives, the plain past form is created by chopping the i off and replacing it with a かった.

Ex.)昨日、このコンピューターは新しかった。

For na adjectives, they are just だった。

That was just the easy part. In any case everything you've done so far is correct. Just remember about the adjective's te- form, which will be vital to most other grammar patterns.

What exactly are plain forms? Oh and would these sentences be able to work?
きのう、へいせい二十二年二月十四日で日曜日です。ちょっとおもしろくてたのしいです。