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Mashou is used after the base 2 form of the verb - to say ‘let’s do something’ e.g. tabemashou = let’s eat. It can also be used to say “I’ll do…” 

Kuru means “to come” - the base form is ki. So polite present form would be kimasu (will come) , polite present negative tense, kimasen (will not come), kimashita past tense (came), kimasen deshita past tense negative (didn’t come).

Suru means “to do” - it can also turn nouns into verbs. It goes after the noun, and turns it into a verb doing action, as opposed to a static thing e.g. benkyou suru (study). Base form is shi. Polite present shimasu (do) e.g. watashi wa shimasu (I will do), shimasen (won’t do), etc.

• kameraman - カメラマン = cameraman (photographer)
• bideogeemu - ビデオゲーム = video game
• nippon no anime - 日本のアニメ = Japanese anime
• 絵 (え) - drawing
• yomu - よむ = read
• bun - 文 (ぶん) = text
• benkyou - べんきょう = study
• masu - ます = grow
• kirei - きれい = pretty
• mada - まだ = yet
• mousugu - もうすぐ = soon
• gomennasai - ごめんなさい - sorry
• haha - 母 （はは) = mother
• chichi - 父（ちち) = father
• taberu - たべる = eat
• jouzu - 上手    (じょうず) = skillful/good
• shitate - 下手  (したて) = not good
• yama - 山（やま）= mountain
• kouen - 公園（こうえん) = park
• gakkou - 学校（がっこう）= school
• minna - みんあ = everybody/everyone
• mi - 見（み）look/view
• shita - した = under
• obentou - お弁当（おべんとう）= Japanese boxed lunch

Grammar points:

• no - の = posessive particle (belongs to)
• yo - よ = emphatic particle (exclaiming)
• he - へ = destination particle (heading…)
• koto - こと = nominalizes a verb (turn into noun) “thing”
• wo - を = object particle (the object of a verb - the object of action) comes after object & before verb [also note: pronounced “o” as particle]
• masu/imasu - ます／います = current formal
• masen/imasen - ません／いません = current negative formal
• nai/anai - ない／あない = current negative casual
• mashita/imashita - ました／いました = past tense pos formal
• ta - た = past tense pos casual
• suru - する = to do (irregular verb)
• kuru - くる = to come (irregular verb)