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Is there a rule to writing verbs in hiragana or kanji when used as a suffix? [duplicate]
A common pattern I've noticed is for verbs like 行く and 来る after the て form of another verb. I know this is grammatically simply verb listing, but in terms of meaning the verbs often times sort of ...
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～ておく or ～とく for preparation (conjugation and nuance)
A few quick questions regarding ～ておく and the casual form ～とく
Firstly, when changing from ～ておく to the more casual ～とく I'm assuming the verb is first conjugated to the ～て form then the ～て is dropped and ...
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Auxiliary verbs in Japanese
What are auxiliary verbs in Japanese language?
Which verbs are auxiliary and how to tell which are auxiliaries, and which are normal?
It looks like the word です is an auxiliary verb. But why? What ...
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How to use あげます、もらいます、and くれます
I have yet to find a good source that covers this in full. But I've seen them being used in places where no giving or receiving is taking place. For example,
"写真をとってもらえませんか？"
and another one I ...
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Should I use ～てきた or ～て来た?
In the examples below
彼は私のところに荷物を送ってきた。
彼は私のところに荷物を送って来た。
荷物が私のところに送られてきた。
荷物が私のところに送られて来た。
would it be better to use the termination/set phrase てきた？ (no kanji) because this is changing the nuance ...
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In Japanese, what does the word "kimashita" mean and how does it work?
In my text book it says “kimashita” is the past form of “to come”.
But then in the textbook it says:
How long have you worked here?
Koko de wa dorekurai hataraite kimashita ka?
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What's the いて in 「忘れないでいて」 for?
I know that the verb changes from 忘れる(to forget) to 忘れないで (don´t forget) but I can´t understand the いて at the end.
At first, I thought it comes from the casual imperative form of いる as this post ...
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Differences between た/てた
Context: From Yotsuba&, they went gathering chestnuts and one of them had a bug in it so they threw it away. But here the young girl is eating from the rest and her sister is saying that there ...
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Usage and meaning : 寝ろ vs 寝てろ?
Source: page 32, Ch.82 of よつばと！
My translation of the highlighted text bubble is,
Now, sleep quietly okay.
But I am confused as to why 寝てろ is used here as opposed to 寝ろ? Is it because sleep is a ...
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How can verb て become an adverb?
I found a sentence
医者が「大丈夫ですか」と重ねて尋ねた。
with translation
The doctor repeatedly asked "Is it OK?".
As far as I know
The concatenation of て verb represents several actions which are done one ...
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Meaning of 寝てない
昨日｛きのう｝も全然｛ぜんぜん｝寝｛ね｝てない。*
Yesterday I didn't sleep at all.
Is it 寝る in て-form followed by ある in negative form? Or a contraction of 寝ていない?
Also, why is it not in past form? I thought one should say:
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What is this 行ってまいります
資料が届いたようですので、事務室に取りに行ってまいります。
"Because it looks like the documents have arrived, I go to the office to fetch them."
This sentence is an example from the grammar section of my textbook.
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ている pronunciation/internalization
How are things like ている/でいる split in terms of pronunciation? Do people internalize/think of it as te-iru or tei-ru when speaking? (there is a small difference in what it would sound like between those ...
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Dropping particles in casual speech/songs
Hey i was listening to this song And it felt weird for me when one of these lines seemed to lack a particle, I am wondering if it is lacking one and it is ok to do so since it is a song, or if there ...
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The transitivity of (auxiliary) verbs
In the current section of my textbook, a bunch of verbal compositions was introduced, like:
読み終わり
歩き始め
祈り続け
終わり and 続け are classified as auxiliary verbs on jisho:
http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AF%E3%...
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