'ni' preceding a verb Sumimasen, Seems I'm better at asking questions than answering them. :) So, trying to come to grips with my location clauses, I came across a construct I can’t quite place yet: Sugu ni kite kudasai. -> Please come here soon. What does the ‘ni’ construe with? First I read it something like: Sugu (koko) ni kite kudasai. But it appears too often in this form to be likely; as in: Sugu ni iku. -> I’ll be right there (lit. I’ll go rightaway). Then I realized ’sugu’ is an adverb; so, literally, Sugu ni kite. -> Come here immediately. (We rarely think it, but ‘immediately’ is an adverb too, of course). Which would make ‘ni’ construe with ‘kite’ (or ‘iku’, whatever the case may be), right? Simply because ‘iku’ and ‘kuru’ deal with location. Like: location particle 'ni' + 'come directly'. Haven’t really done Presumptive Tenses yet, but, speaking of 'sugu', without ‘ni’, can I say things like this? Sugu hanasu deshou (hanashimashou) ne. -> Talk to you soon, k!? Or would I need some sort of particle after ’sugu’ here too?Chihiro-san, Thank you very much, yet again! :) Just to get it clear in my head, in "Sugu ni iku," the 'ni' belongs to 'sugu', right? As in 'Sugu ni' + verb of motion. So, instead of just the regular "Hayaku!", could I, for the sake of grammar, then also say the following? Hayaku ni kite! -> Hurry up (in coming) over here! (Or any adverb, really, that modifies 'kite') Arigato gozaimasu!