Some useful grammar words

This seems to be a very huge guide to Japanese grammar with Japanese vocab included. (Although I still recommend Tae Kim's guide as a more friendly comprehensive look.) Well, I can't learn it all at once. It's nice to be able to ask questions that you'll have to ask often (Is this a -ru verb?) in Japanese.

The 文法用語 section is particularly useful. It actually goes further in depth than non-linguists probably need. Some of the words don't have translations for whatever reason, but many of them can be found in my favorite online dictionary.

So then once you start looking up words like 一段活用　(ru verb conjugation いちだんかつよう), you can look find different words made with 活用 (which is, itself a する　verb) like 活用語 (conjugated word　かつようご),　活用形　(conjugated form かつようけい), and　活用語尾　(conjugative suffix かつようごび--i.e. the part that you actual mix 'n match to come up with tenses, etc.)

代名詞　means "pronoun," and it's pronounced だいめいし, which makes you want to think "big noun." Instead, maybe think "noun for the ages" or something lol

I'm going to reproduce a bunch of things because doing so will help me CONCENTRATE and maybe I'll remember more. These are important words!

主語　subject　しゅご
目的語　object　もくてきご
名詞　noun　めいし
代名詞　pronoun　だいめいし
形容詞　ii adjective　けいようし
形容動詞　na adjective　けいようどうし
一段活用動詞　ru verb　いちだんかつようどうし
五段活用動詞　u verb　ごだんかつようどうし
不規則動詞　irregular verb　ふきそくどうし
副詞　adverb　ふくし
接続詞　conjuction　せつぞくし
過去形　past tense　かこけい
現在形　present tense　げんざいかえい
常体　plain　じょうたい
敬体　polite　けいたい
敬語　honorifics　けいご
肯定　affirmative　こうてい
否定　negative　ひてい

I guess this is enough for now. I'd sort of like to learn some other verb words (transitive, intransitive, volitional, that...other thing...causative, passive, yadda). I bet I can find them easier in my textbooks, although most of them are on that page.

Here is a good tip: LEARN THIS STUFF WHILE YOU'RE ACTUALLY LEARNING THIS STUFF. Don't just skip over the headings of your elementary Japanese book just because they are in Japanese and you don't speak it yet. If your book doesn't have them, ask your teacher. If you learn these words in the context of grasping the concepts, it's probably so much easier to get them to stick.