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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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Verb classifications by japanese learners

As a studies of Japanese I've come across two distinct ways to group verbs for purposes of remembering how to conjugate them. … う動詞 / る動詞 Group1 / Group 2 Pacerier mentioned a verb1 and verb5, can someone explain to me how the verbs are divided for this system? …
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ことができる versus V~える form

I'm not entirely sure, but ことができる I think is more 固い表現 than using the potential verb. And is usually taught before the potential form because grammatically structures are easier for students to pick …
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