r/japanese • u/Additional-Gas-5119 • 2d ago
Best Grammar Resources
I wonder if there is any ultimate grammar resources with every single subject inside of it. It can be e book, pdf or a real book so if you guys know anything like that please let me know. Looking to subjects by using google is kinda boring and feels wrong. Its really hard to find a spesific subject too. I hope you guys know smth 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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u/Dread_Pirate_Chris 1d ago edited 1d ago
The 3 volume set "A (Basic / Intermediate / Advanced) Dictionary of Japanese Grammar" covers, well, a lot. I don't think there's anything from modern Japanese grammar that's missing.
Being organized as a "dictionary" makes it easier to find what you're looking for too, at least if you have a good sense for which words are the "grammar" words or suffixes in a sentence you're having trouble with. Being split into three volumes though does mean you may have to check all three indexes.
Imabi is not nearly as popular as some other grammar sites, but it is obsessively complete. I haven't read through it in years and it's grown quite a lot since then, but judging by the table of contents it covers everything in modern Japanese, most things in classical Japanese, and is apparently adding Okinawan.