I’m a beginner level and I have no problem with vocab or kanji (anki gang) but I’m having trouble with conjugations. It’s not that I don’t know how to do basic conjugations; I’m just having trouble making it stick. I find myself thinking “ok is this a irregular, ichidan, or godan verb, now what’s the ending for past negative plain, …” It’s all very mechanical and not at all intuitive. I know that I’m just beginning and I’m not expecting that it’ll just come to me naturally, but I feel like there must be a better way for me to use/learn the conjugations.
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it does *kinda* come naturally
like, at first when you learn kana, you read it slowly, but after reading 100 pages or 1000 pages, you read it pretty fast
conjugation is same thing, there are only so many of them and only a few are tricky because they can overlap (but even those in context are usually not tricky)
yeah I mean you’ll mess up now and again (passive being used as an honorific, for example can be something you might not see and then forget and then it comes back again) but yeah that’s just part of it too
another related thing is, “how do particles work in all these cases” which has to do with conjugation in a way, because, passive and causative-passive have some seemingly different way they use a few particles
You have to see them a lot for them to become intuitive. So read/listen/use-them a lot and also (optionally) [practice, practice, practice](https://wkdonc.github.io/conjugation/drill.html).