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01-22-2011, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Fugue View Post
Yeah, that's something that sort of confused me when I started taking formal Japanese classes, because I remembered from what I'd done independently that the classification was more diverse than just those two categories. Could you explain the classes to me though? What makes 覚える class 2?

EDIT: Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the explanation, Kyle.
The only 100% accurate explanation is "because that's how Japanese people speak."

A decent explanation (that has exceptions) is "because it ends in 'eru.'"
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