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Verbs with ending [ます] to [く]
First, you have it backwards: いく is the plain form of the verb, and いきます is a form that you create by following a rule.
The plain form happens to have く in this case, but that is not at all a rule. ...
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What is this usage of 回った?
回る here means "to take effect" (see definition 5). Basically it means to get drunk. The way it's used here isn't that common; you will hear the phrase 酔いが回る or 酒が回る (to get drunk, buzzed, ...
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is the use of 突っ込まないで considered rude?
For 突っ込む in 突っ込まないで, see for example
Trying to understand ツッコミ and 突っ込まない and similiar
What does つっこむ べき mean?
It is basically 'making corrections to ぼけ (something ridiculous)' in a comedy talk.
So, ...
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Difference between 口にする and 言う
言う is a very common verb that means "to say". 口にする is a more nuanced verb meaning "to vocalize", "to utter" or "to say out loud". It's more specific and less ...
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What's the nuance of ...ましょう to express intent?
Since 行きましょう is the polite version of 行こう, your question boils down to how to use the volitional form properly in general. It's used in several ways:
Similarly to English "Let's ～", it can ...
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What are all the "special" suru verbs?
In the export of the Japanese Wiktionary from January 2023 I found these entries containing 1 Kanji followed by jiru/zuru/suru/su.
As for final -su and -jiru, I manually excluded Wago verbs with those ...
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Is this で with 思い当たる the particle or te-form
I'm not entirely sure if you're asking whether で as the て-form of だ is possible in the general case or in this case. In the general case, it's certainly possible, but I don't think that's what's ...
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Transitivity of する
If you are asking about the transitivity of a resultant combined verb, it depends on the combination. For example, 運動する and 死亡する are always intransitive, while 保管する and 破壊する are always transitive. ...
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How does 溢れる function here?
Does 溢れる change its meaning depending on if the に and が is there?
Yes, you can understand that 溢れる has two meanings (though it is a theoretical problem how to count meanings):
Of something serving ...
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Japanese atonic verbs
I don't think there's a clear "why" this happens it may just be how things developed though I would love to be wrong here.
If you're more interested in how it works you can refer to In what ...
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Respect keigo: Why is ご利用になる OK but お料理になる isn't?
ご + kango + になる is a relatively uncommon pattern that applies to only certain verbs:
✅: ご到着になる, ご出発になる, ご出席になる, ご利用になる, ご来店になる, ご帰宅になる, ご入浴になる, ご発言になる (+ご覧になる)
❌: ご運転になる, ご学習になる, ご訪問になる, ご観察になる, ...
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What's the idiomatic tense of verb to use in a TODO list?
ミルクを買え and ミルクを買おう would be extremely uncommon though not wrong. ミルクを買う is fine but most people will probably shorten it to ミルク買う or just ミルク. You could also say ミルク購入 but in this specific case it ...
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What is the で part in ではありません？
Good on you for giving Japanese a go!
Ya, Japanese and English are very different, structurally, and some of what's happening in Japanese makes more sense if you know some of the history (well, ...
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How does やがる work with なる?
The verb やがる follows another verb and typically indicates disdain for the doer. However, sometimes it attaches to a verb that has no particular doer like in your case, and then it simply adds speaker'...
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Why does Bunpro call ないか incorrect here?
It's true that you should avoid using ～ないか in ordinary conversation. However, this is not because it's technically incorrect but because it's overly blunt.
Grammatically speaking, the following ...
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past verb + ところだった= Major difference from るところだった?
The plain use of ～る・～たところだ・だった ignoring it's use with conditionals for the moment, is simply a means of setting the relative time of an event.
するところだ 'is about to [just going to] do'
するところだった 'was ...
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is the use of 突っ込まないで considered rude?
I suppose this question arose from interpreting 突っ込む as a verb with a negative or offensive connotation. However, 突っ込む does not carry a negative meaning like "be noisy" or "make a fuss&...
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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)
波越し is not an established activity name I am aware of. When was this text written, or did you come up with it on your own? There is a term 波乗り, which is another name for サーフィン (surfing), but it's ...
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Meaning of ことを受ける
As you say, this is about someone's responses. In order to respond, you need to first get something. 〜を受け（て） is used when you make some decision in response to some development in the situation you ...
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How does おめでとう become 'to congratulate'?
Sorry in advance if I tell you things that you already know about Chinese characters. I want to explain what I can for everyone - specifically, how the characters are used in Japanese.
おめでとう is an ...
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Breaking down 「お間違えないでしょうか。」
If you've got the お～ or ご～ prefix, you should know that these only attach to nouns (including the noun-ified stems of verbs), so this construction must be #1 in your two options above. :)
For お間違【まちが】...
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What does 身を起こしている mean?
This 起こす refers to the action of lifting the upper body of someone from a completely flat position. For example, helping a patient who is lying on their back in bed to sit up can be expressed as 体を起こす....
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Basic stems that end in "w"?
The term 'stem' when it comes to Japanese usually refers to the so-called 連用形 'continuative form' of a verb. In Modern Japanese, there are two types of verbs (outside of exceptions), 一段 'ichidan' and ...
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Is it weird linking four verbs together?
Grammatically, your sentence is already perfectly correct. The verb part consists of two actions (行った and 買ってきてくれた), and there's nothing wrong or unnatural about using two or more subsidiary verbs. ...
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Why are くる and する not exceptions for the conditional ば?
Verbs する (OJ: su) and 来{く}る (OJ: ku) are actually mostly regular (more regular in Old and Middle Japanese than in Modern Japanese).
Their stems (not to be confused with 連用形 or any other form) are se- (...
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How to handle situations when it is ambiguous whether ～られる is potential or passive?
傷つく: to be hurt
傷つける: to hurt (someone)
傷つけられる: to be hurt / can hurt (someone)
There is already a common intransitive verb 傷つく ("to be wounded/hurt"), so we seldom say 傷つけられる in the ...
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What is the actual nuance of the verb に映る
～に映る is a phrase that means "to appear (in someone's eyes) as ～" or "to strike someone as ～". One of the basic meanings of 映る is "(for an image) to be projected (on a screen, ...
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Does はやく give the sentence the nuance of a order?
Simply yes. It may be simlar to Quick, which works as an imperative without be.
You can think there is しろ or して omitted after はやく. (はやくして/はやくしろ sounds stronger).
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Can adjectives follow the に particle?
Adjectives are like verbs, in that they 'inflect', that is, have endings that indicate tense (or aspect), just like verbs. So 優しい should be thought of as '[to be] kind', 優しかった, 'was kind'.
に would ...
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