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Maria Phillips
Ending of plain verbs This is going out on a limb, probably just desperate at this point, since I struggle remembering vocabulary and my mnemonic creative skills aren't great. Is there any particular reason why plain form verbs have the ending they do? 行く 見る 返す etc. Why ku in iku, why not iru or isu? I know they mean other things, and it's probably to do with what sounds best, but I'm wondering if all verbs that end in ku are similar to each other, and different to those ending in ru, which are different to su, etc. Many thanks in advance.
2017년 2월 2일 오후 1:53
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Recently Japanese grammar scholars are agreeing that it is impossible to analyze the conjugations of Japanese verbs using hiragana or katakana. Because many of their bases have consonant endings. So for example, it is incorrect to describe the conjugaison of 行く in this way; 行-く / 行-か-ない / 行-け-ば... The correct way is below; ik-u / ik-a-nai / ik-e-ba... And all verbs should be analyzed in this way; 見る→mir-u / 聞く→kik-u / 話す→hanas-u / 言う→i-u... So we can only say that all Japanese plain verbs have "u" sounds in their endings. And which consonant verbs take on their endings of bases are completely irregular.
2017년 2월 2일
yes, all verbs ending in く have a similarity... that they end in く. No other similarities.
2017년 2월 2일
As a native speaker, I have never thought about it. I roughly looked up why we have different verb-ending forms. However, there were many reasons in terms of linguistics, pronunciations as well as their historical developments, which I could not follow. I am not sure if there is some similarity in the same ending form (meanings?-maybe not. Conjugations could be similar). To me, your question seems similar to that English verbs have -sh (finish, dash, wash), ch (teach, catch, watch), other random things, etc. How can I remember "dash" and "wash" and distinguish them? I think remembering Japanese words including verbs for you is essential the same. Just remember them:)
2017년 2월 2일
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