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jesselt (Offline)
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04-23-2009, 05:13 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 ?
I don't understand this. There are no such things as upper and lower case letters in Japanese...

When I learned it it was taught in a song with the tune of the Clementine Song (Oh my darling, oh my darling, etc)
く is いて
ぐ is いで
うつる are small って
ぬむぶ are んで
and す is just して

Though it's important to note that る refers to an う verb (or 1st level or whatever you call them) who's dictionary form ends in る (IE 作る) not something like 食べる which just changes to 食べて

Or something. I'm not really very good with てform.
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