The Japanese Verbs module has been online for several months, and I said I'd improve it progressively.

So here is the announcement for the Japanese verbal Parser! What's that? This new feature is actually able to parse a verbal structure to fetch the infinitive form.

How is it useful? When learning Japanese, we often start with Kana, Kanji, some vocabulary. Quickly, we feel like learning real Japanese with texts, mangas, lyrics, etc. And suddenly, we realize that we don't know yet how Japanese verbs work, that we are unable to understand 飲んでほしい (nonde hoshii) or 走りたくなかったです (hashiritakunakatta desu). No problem, let's search in the dictionary. In the first case, not sure that you'll know that from "nonde", you actually need to look for "nomu" in the dictionary. And even if you already know verbs enough for that, not sure that you'll be able to understand "-te hoshii"...

Here comes the Parser to save your day. How does it work? You only need to type the structure you're looking for in romaji, kana or kanji! The tool will parse the structure, and will display all possible verbs matching your search. Besides, it will also indicate the form used (politeness, passive, want to do, etc.).

The Japanese Parser is still under development, I'll add more verbal structures so that it can detect many of them. Here are the forms already integrated:

• -masu (masen, mashita, etc.)
• TE form (食べて、乗って, etc.)
• TA form (話した、泳いだ, etc.)
• -reru (passive)
• -seru (causative)
• -serareru (causative passive)
• -tai (takunai, takatta, etc. want to do)
• -te iru (inai, imasu, etc. progressive / durative action)
• -te hoshii (want someone to do)
• -te kudasai (polite imperative)
• -nasai (superieur to inférieur imperative)
• conditional forms (to, ba, tara, nara)
• -te mo ii (can / be allowed to)
• -te miru (try to do)
• kamoshirenai (it may be)
• koto ga dekiru (can / to be able to do)

The module for Japanese Verbs is usually available to Samurai members only. But I'll open it to everyone for free for a few days so that you can try it.