How can I practice conjugations more?

NativShark teaches the majority of the conjugations in the Japanese language quite early on to help you understand Japanese in the wild as efficiently as possible.

If you want extra practice with conjugations, the Conjugation Drill tool may be of use to you.

You can also use the conjugator at the bottom of the same page to reference how to conjugate a verb you input into it. It can also conjugate a random verb.

Using Conjugation Drills

Conjugation Drills can be used at any time while studying with NativShark, but we recommend practicing with these after you have learned the conjugations during your main studies via the "Study Now" button.

This means you'll likely get the most value out of this tool after around Milestone 6 or later, once most of the conjugations in the language are taught.

That said, you can customize the drills to suit what you are familiar with or what you want to practice the most if you want to practice earlier than Milestone 6 or just want to take a look at a conjugation or two.

To do so, hit the customize button on the right:

A dropdown will open and you'll be able to choose which conjugations you want to practice with. If you don't customize it, all conjugations will be drilled by default.

Set the Duration (or leave it alone and it will default to a minute) and then hit Begin!

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This tool is designed for use in free time for those who want to practice their conjugations more. It is by no means required to use.

Especially when you are first learning the conjugations, it's better to focus on comprehending them rather than being able to conjugate whatever you want immediately.

Quickly producing conjugations is a skill that will come with time, practice, and exposure to the language.

The most important thing is to make sure you keep pressing the Study Now button and learning new Japanese content as often as possible!

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Checking a conjugation

At the bottom of the Conjugation Drills page is the Conjugation tool.

It's a helpful reference if you want to quickly check how a certain verb is conjugated.

For example, if we want to see how 食べる is conjugated, we can type it into this box:

Once we hit Conjugate, a table of conjugations will show:

Happy conjugating^^