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04-23-2009, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DietWeebs View Post
My teacher taught me this.. Ku i Gu i Su shi Mu n Bu n (etc i forget)

but that an action verb ending the uppercase letters (Ku, Gu, Su, Mu, Bu,) are all dropped when making a TE form and the lower case letters (i, i, shi, n, n,) are added at the end along with TE to make a TE form... does that make sense ?

Is there an easier way to remember this ?

if you know plain form (dictionary form) there is an easy way to remember te form.

く = いて
ぐ = いで
うつる = って
ぬむぶ = んで
す = して

just change one of those (last sounds of plain form verbs) to the te form they correspond with.
for example:

買います - 買 - 買って (つるって)
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