Plain Form I don't come on here and post things very often anymore, but I just needed to talk about plain form in Japanese. It is the single most laborious thing to learn that I have encountered in my studies so far. But I find it very difficult to differentiate between ichidan and godan verbs, and if I can't do that, then I can't know how to conjugate the verb correctly. あまりむずかしくない、でも、きらいだ。　 there's a bunch of different versions to learn: plain form, plain negative form, plain past form, plain past negative form, plain negative of adjectives, plain past of adjectives, plain past negative of adjectives, etc. It just never ends! じゃ、頑張りますけど。。。