Learn Negating Verbs In Japanese

Japanese Verbs are negated by conjugating to their negative form just like the state-of-being for nouns and adjectives. But just like most of the other things the rules are more complicated.

How to conjugate verbs to the negative form

ru-verbs: To conjugate ru-verbs to their negative, drop the last 「る」 and attach 「ない」 to the result.

例）　見る → 見ない
例）　出る → 出ない

u-verbs: To conjugate u-verbs to their negative, first replace the last / u / character with the / a / sound equivalent and attach 「ない」 to the result.
例）　飲む → 飲ま → 飲まない
例）　待つ → 待た → 待たない

※ One important exception is verbs that end in 「う」. For these, you must replace 「う」 with 「わ」 （not 「あ」） and attach 「ない」 to the result.
例）　拾う → 拾わ → 拾わない

Here are the example sentences from the last section conjugated to the negative.

（１）　アリスは食べない。- As for Alice, does not eat.
（２）　ジムが遊ばない。- Jim is the one that does not play.

Learn Japanese Verbs
ru-Verbs and u-Verbs
Negating Verbs
Transitive & Intransitive Verbs
Stem Of Verbs
Yodan Verbs
Common Yodan Verbs
Ichidan Verbs
Common Ichidan Verbs