Volitional Form
How to make Volitional Forms in Japanese.
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- ・ Meaning: Volitional Form
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- ・ JLPT Level: N4
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- ・ Category: grammar
You can use “~よう、~おう” when you want to say ” Let’s do something”.
Volitional form is more casual than ” ましょう” ( Let’s do something).
The patterns is below:
Group 2 verb : たべる→たべよう
Group 1 verb :いく→いこう
Form
G2 verb | drop る, add よう | たべる→たべよう |
G1 verb | change the last hiragana in う-step to お-step hiragana, add う | のむ→のもう いく→いこう |
irregular |
Memorize!
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くる→こよう |
する→しよう |
Volitional form + か:casual equivalent of 「ましょうか」: shall I? shall we?
Examples of sentence
デートしよう!
Let’s go on a date!
今晩食事に行こう!
Let’s go for dinner tonight!
映画に行こうか?
Shall we go to the movies?
Volitional form + と思っている= I am thinking of doing something
You have made up your mind to do something in the future.
Examples of sentence
来年日本に行こうと思っている。
I am thinking of going to Japan next year
このしゅうまつは、たくさんねようと思っています。
I’m thinking of sleep all day long at this weekend .
Keep up with your studies!