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sleeps

asobu/asobimasu enjoys oneself

yasumu/yasumimasu rests

isogu/isogimasu hurries

aku/akimasu (something) gets
opened

akeru/akemasu opens
(something)

kowareru/kowaremasu (something) gets
broken

kowasu/kowashimasu breaks
(something)

Structure Notes

4.1. Adjectives

There are three classes of inflected forms in Japanese:

verbs, adjectives, and the copula. You have observed the
similar inflections of the verbs (shimasu, shimashita, shimashō)

and the copula (-desu, -deshita, -deshō). Adjectives also have

inflections for the same categories:

atsui desu it’s hot

atsukatta it was hot
desu

atsui deshō it will (probably) be hot