Japanese Kanji: help needed?

Question

I need to know about verbs. I know a few verbs in Kanji (like tatsu, iru, and shutsu). My question is: how do you write the verb inflections? I don't know (but I highly doubt, and hope it isn't true) whether or not there is a separate Kanji for every verb inflection.
By verb inflections, I mean inflections of verbs like:
hanasu, hanashimasu, hanashita, hanasanai, ect.

How do you distinguish among the inflections?

please and thank you

Answer 1

Seeing is believing
話すhana-su
話しますhana-shimasu
話したhana-shita
話さないhana-sanai

Answer 2

Chinese has no inflection. Japanese writing was borrowed from Chinese (kanji), but was not completely workable due to Japanese inflection. This was the driving force in the Japanese creation of kana writing, as a way to represent inflections.

Answer 3

The verb root is in kanji, an after that the inflected endings are placed in HIRUGANA. Please note that verbs are not CONJUGATED in each tense like in other languages. for instance, "i go" and "he goes" in english would not look any different in Japanese. There is no change in the verb form between the "I", "you" "he" "she" "it" "we" and "they" forms.
The inflections come in in different tenses - past tense and other tenses.