Reading these comments I get why people identify with Bret and Zeke so much someone says they identify with David and find his comments inspiring and the responses they get are all telling them they ' re wrong <| sep |> Thanks for the info . For everyone else , I read this and it is legit . I recommend this read <| sep |> Some English verbs are not verbs in Japanese , so adjectives end with ~ when being polite and verbs will end in ~ to form the polite version . If you look up a word in the dictionary it will say adj . or v . once you understand conjugation of verbs then you will understand the difference . From what I know you can ' t add to a verb because it doesn ' t make sense in the conjugation , e . g . to go cannot be . Think of it this way means is , am , are etc . When it comes to adjectives I think of it in a weird English translation e . g . I like Japanese is like Japanese is likeable , rather than meaning to like is makes something likeable . I hope that makes sense , I am also a beginner so I might not be 100 % correct