Questions tagged [verbs]
動詞. A class of words which describe events or states and can be inflected to indicate tense, aspect, voice, and so forth. In citation form, all Modern Japanese verbs end in -(r)u.
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Understanding the verb 諫める: broader than English "to admonish"?
This usage of いさめる is from a sentence in Hunter x Hunter, where two characters are together and one of them [A] senses an enemy from the shadows about to attack them. The other character [B] asks why ...
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Meaning of ことを受ける
This comes from a new Reuters JP article I read today about Netanyahu's responses to Iran's missile/drone launchings:
[エルサレム １４日 ロイター] - イスラエルのネタニヤフ首相は１４日、イランが発射した３００超のドローン（無人機）...
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Is this で with 思い当たる the particle or te-form
From the anime "Heavenly Delusion", and a main character asks someone about their knowledge of a place called "Heaven" (天国):
あっ あと 天国って場所で
何か思い当たることないですか？
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Incorporating a verb phrase into a noun: "Object + を + Verb dictionary form + noun" (波を越す遊び) vs. "Object + Verb masu form + の + noun" (波越しの遊び)
Here's an example: 何も忘れてしまって波越しの遊びを続けさまにやっていました。
For the 波越しの遊び part, is there some nuance involved in writing it the way it is, versus writing it as 波を越す遊び?
Thanks in advance!
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"Workin Hard" -Fuji Kaze Song lyric the verb "かったり" - [duplicate]
I really cant understand which verb is かったり" here 結果なんぞかったりーわ
Any guesses ? Is it a dialect ?
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is the use of 突っ込まないで considered rude?
ごめん。深く突っ込まないで
In this context and in general, I wonder is the meaning more like "please don't be noisy and leave it", or "haha, it's nothing to worry about!"?
The use of ごめん ...
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Is the sentence, "あなたはこれを望んでいた。" grammatically correct?
I am a beginner in learning japanese and I've seen many different takes on grammar and where to place verbs, subjects, etc. I know it's a subject-object-verb language and I want to be sure I have the ...
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Verbs with ending [ます] to [く]
I know a verb ending in 「ます」 has a 「く」form. For example: いきます-> いく. Can you do this with any verb, or are there some rules?
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Respect keigo: Why is ご利用になる OK but お料理になる isn't?
I often come across the respect keigo conjugation "ご/お + [base word] + になる" when used with する verbs. For example, a cashier might say:
「レジ袋は有料ですが、ご利用になりますか?」
However according to this ...
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What's the nuance of ...ましょう to express intent?
十万円あげましょう。 I'll give you 100,000 yen.
手伝いましょう。 I'll help you.
I've seen sentences of intent like this, but I don't understand the nuance of the speaker using ...ましょう instead of structures like 「...
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使役形の助詞は「に」か「を」か
教科書から学んだ動詞の使役形は、命令者は使役動詞の主語で「が」で表し、実際の動作者は助詞「に」で表す。例えば、僕が友達へ「ご飯を食べて」と言うと、僕が友達にご飯を食べさせる。「を」で表す部分は動作の実際の対象でありそうです。
なのに、気付いたのは、「に」の代わりに「を」で実際の動作者を表す場合もあります。例えば、back numberさんの歌詞の一句:「冬がそっと雪を降らせて」。ここ、「...
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Verb ending in いでし
In Gosick episode 19, a character says this line:
ああ罪なる者よ汚れし血の泉より生まれいでしお前に嘆きの祝福を
which is translated "Oh, sinner. To you, born from a spring of foul blood. I offer lamentable blessings".
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Difference between 口にする and 言う
Both of them means "to say" but when is the best time to use each of them?
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Is the tense and conjugation in my sentence understandable?
田中は私が花瓶を壊したと言う、が私ではなかった。
Tanaka says that I broke the vase, but it wasn't me.
I'm figuring out how to make complex sentences so I'll be prepared to write short stories!
I want to see if this means ...
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Looking for correction on my sentences made using the ます conjugation! [closed]
田中さんは言いません。Tanaka didn't say anything.
田中さんは私を語ません。Tanaka doesn't speak of me.
明さんは笑いました。 Akira laughed.
明さんは家を作ました。 Akira built a house.
中校に学びませんでした。 I didn't learn in middle school.
田中さんは明さんが見ませんでした。...
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Can なくす be written as 亡くす here?
Would it be wrong to use 亡くす in the following sentence? (The wwwjdic lists 亡くす as a transitive verb.)
去年【きょねん】とても多【おお】かった熊【くま】の被害【ひがい】 どうやってなくすか国【くに】も考【かんが】える
The number of bear attacks was very high ...
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Difference between the verbs used in the main clause of 間 and 間に
I saw these two sentences in a Youtube video-
私は冬休みの間韓国へ行きました。
私は冬休みの間に韓国へ行きました。
Shouldn't the first sentence be-
私は冬休みの間韓国へ行っていました。
My question is that shouldn't we use ています form of verbs with 間?( to ...
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What's the idiomatic tense of verb to use in a TODO list?
Suppose I have a TODO list with items meant to be read by myself in the future. Items include things like
Buy milk
Get groceries
and so forth. If this TODO list were translated to Japanese, what ...
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Meaning of 抜ける in this Song
So a song from Taiko-no-Tatsujin, おにぎりはどこかしら, is about a [girl] that needs more food, so she goes to a convenience store, and then comes back home and forgets the entire ordeal. She first wakes up:
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N1 を N2 に見る structure
四畳半神話大系 EP6, I encountered this sentence:
「ラブドールを性欲処理の道具にしか見ていない輩には分からないだろうが これは高尚な趣味である。」
In which the protagonist is introducing a love doll he has been engaging with romantically for some time.
I ...
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What is the で part in ではありません？
Ok, this might be more complicated or less complicated than I'm making it out to be but I'm assuming this question will be made up of two unrelated components but I can't figure it out so I'm shooting ...
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Can adjectives follow the に particle?
https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/verbparticles lead me to believe that the に particle should be used with a verb. However I have been reading some sentences that have noun + に + adjective.
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What does いけると mean?
泊まってもいいですか? まだ離れたくなくて。。
"It's ok if I stay over? I don't want to be separated yet..."
To which the other character thinks
(そう言えばいけると思ってるな いいけど。。。)
I don't understand how いける is being used ...
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Clarifications on using ていく with verbs - using 着る as example verb
I'm finding the application of ていく (and by extension てくる) difficult to understand, so I want to use an example with the verb 着る to ask some questions on it:
If someone wore their jacket and left me (...
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past verb + ところだった= Major difference from るところだった?
おや もう到着ですか
空想を楽しんでいたところだったのに
How does たところだった here work?
I understand
るところだった is "I almost did x" but how does it work with the past version then?
https://nihongonosensei.net/?p=12827
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What is the actual nuance of the verb に映る
この通路の先で行われてることを考えると楽しいとは言えないけど
Which is about "If I think of what happens ahead of this passage, I can't say it's "fun"."
To which then the other character replies
おっしゃる通り
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How does やがる work with なる?
"もう1ヶ月が経ってんだぞ！?"
"一人でしたって変な感じになりやがるし"
The character friend has not been playing with him for a month. From context I can gather that "Even if I try to do things alone, it ...
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Why does Bunpro call ないか incorrect here?
It is recommended to use the (いき)ませんか version, as (いか)ないか would be a bit too casual to use with someone that you are not very close with (and is also technically not correct Japanese).
Given ませんか is ...
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What does にだけにはなるか (vulgar text warning/nsfw) mean?
I am stumbled on the second to left of this sentence.
The character mentioned his revenge failed, and in the last line he mentions he at least attempted to sleep with a girl. The character is a ...
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決める +としよう = plan verb + volitional [duplicate]
2人に一緒にかっこよく決めるとしようや
The characters are at the end of a challenge and they are about to face the last room, when one of them says this. After that, they do an athletic c trick to pass the challenge.
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What does this use of まいな mean?
忘れちゃおるまいな
From context he seems to be asking "You didn't forget how much I apologize to the dude"? But I'm not sure about this specific use.
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Conjugating Vされる, Vさせる form: just treat as ichidan?
Is it gramatically correct to treat causative, passive, and causative-passive forms of verbs as ichidan る ending verbs when negating them or creating their past tense?
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Does はやく give the sentence the nuance of a order?
はやく
もう入れる。。。から
The character is standing in front of a wardrobe with something in his hands and the other character tells him this.
From context the only thing I can gather is "Hurry up and put ...
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Particle を without a verb [duplicate]
In the sentence
それぞれの心の中にあるそれぞれの思い出を胸に日常が始まるのだ。
translated as
And in each heart there are different memories held inside each chest as we turn back to our daily lives.
Where is the verb for を胸に?
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行けます vs 行きます potential form
I've got the following sentence:
Everyone but my older brother is going on next week's trip.
which, in Japanese, is supposedly
来週の旅行は兄以外みんな行けます。
But since it's got 行けます as opposed to 行きます, which, ...
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What are the differences in usage? - ~あげる and ~あがる?
~あげる and ~あがる mean "finish."
But what are the differences in usage?
Should あげる strictly follow 他動詞？
For example, この本を読みあげた。
Should あがる strictly follow 自動詞？
For example, さっき走りあがった。
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訪問する vs 見学する in meaning 'to visit'
I have heard both 訪問する and 見学する both being used to mean 'to visit'
What is the difference between these two verbs?
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What verb was cut off here (implied verb)?
I would like some more context on what is being said in cooking instructions for Takoyaki. On the ingredients list, サラダ油 is listed, and it has this footnote:
ごま油を一割混ぜると香ばしい風味に！
To provide some ...
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Trying to translate a more complex sentence, Instrumentives
I am having difficulty translating something (I am translating as an excerise), how would one translate a more instrumental sentence, like:
"Charlie sweetens the cake with sugar"
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Causative + Potential and the verb 合わせる
What exactly is the use of 合わせる here? Causative + potential?
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演じる for performing in tv/movies/anime
I know the verb 演じる is used for performing on stage, but can it be used for tv shows/movies/anime as well? For example, can I say
3月のライオンというTVアニメで花澤香菜さんは演じました。
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What does “~をあてに~” mean?
Context：
今日は午後からまつ毛パーマをあてに行きました。
What is the difference between "まつ毛パーマをしに行きました" and "まつ毛パーマをあてに行きました"?
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ある before nouns [duplicate]
I was wondering what is the nuance with ある before nouns, like in this sentence.
夏のある暑い日の午後、彼はその運転手に再会した.
I don't quite understand if the addition of ある before nouns can convey a certain feeling, or ...
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Meaning and reading of 益し加える
Reading in a book by 落合淳思 I wonder about (what looks like) the compound verb 益し加える in the sentence 「自は鼻の象形であり、それに声符を益し加えた繁文である。」 (繁文 is used by Ochiai as a technical term for the modern shape of a ...
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Pitch accent of ～ざる
What is the resulting pitch accent when one appends ～ざる to 平板 (する, 言う, 寝る) and 起伏 (来る, 持つ, 食べる) verbs?
Intuitively, I would have assumed that the resulting word falls in the same class (平板／起伏) as the ...
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Use of んじゃないんだ in this sentence
何で高校の制服。。?
Why I got to wear a high school uniform?
最高に似合ってる
It fits you the best!
And the answer is
感想を求めたんじゃないんだよな
What is the purpose of んじゃないんだin this sentence? I guess he saying he didn't ask ...
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Nominalization of verbs in japanese [duplicate]
What is the purpose of verb nominalization in Japanese? How do I know when to nominalize a verb and when not to? Still, knowing there are different ways of nominalizing i.e using the i form of the ...
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When are える words 他動詞 and when are they 自動詞?
When I started using WaniKani I was always wondering why 上がる is intransitive (to rise by your-/itself) and 上げる is transitive (to raise something).
Over time I learned that there are patterns defining ...
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とどく; 届く meaning in this sentence
と…とても信じられん…こ…この聖域にまでパワーがとどくなんて
Unbelievable! That the power would reach even this sanctuary...!
Looking for an in depth explanation of the usage of とどく; 届く here, because I've read that it means reach ...
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The tense of osagashi
In the sentence "nanika osagashi desu ka?" (Are you looking for something), in which tense is "osagashi"? Why is it not osagashimasu?
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