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11-23-2010, 04:10 PM
To expand on what masaegu said, if you perform an action on something else, it's transitive (you transfer your energy to something external). If it is on yourself, it is intransitive (in- means "not", so intransitive means "not transitive").
I gathered in the courtyard = intransitive
I gathered my cars in the courtyard = transitive
Japanese is the same with many verbs. 集める・集まる is one of such pairs.
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