In the last lesson I had in my Japanese course, we learned about transitive verbs & intransitive verbs.
In the Genki II book, there's no explanation as to how a verb is transformed from transitive to intransitive or vice versa.
I searched online and on YouTube for possible explanation as to how we conjugate between the pair and I found no such thing.
Some patterns I can find:
- A lot of intransitive verbs always covert from a godan verb to an ichidan verb.
- And the letter before the る is set to the ~e letters.
- Ichidan verbs usually remove the る and covert to a godan verb for the intransitive counterpart (but not always, e.g. 閉める→閉まる, the る stays but the verb still converted to a godan verb)
So I was wondering if there was a rule of thumb for converting between the two pairs?
