Basic question on Imperative Mina-san! Mou ichido tetsudatte kuremasu ka? (That was supposed to mean: "Can you help me again?" I'm sure you can't combine it like that, but it's all I know for now; gomen nasai!) I'm trying to get a (very) basic grasp on verbs and their conjugations. I ran across this standard phrase on a podcast: "Ganbatte kudasai!" So I resolved to explore just the Imperative a bit for now, for which someone handed me the following rule: "Ru-verbs are easy because they all follow the same rule for forming the imperative, as you can see: make the -masu form, eg. taberu -> tabemasu, then take off ‘masu’ and put ‘te’ instead - and that’s it." So, after some searching I found that 'taberu' and 'miru' are basically Ichidan verbs (ending in -ERU and -IRU), that conjugate differently from regular Yodan verbs, like those ending in -RU, such as 'ganbaru,' right? Like: ganbaru -> ganbatte suwaru - suwatte Then I looked up some -ERU and -IRU forms, like: miru -> mite taberu -> tabete I almost felt like I was beginning to understand it, when I ran into: hashiru -> hashitte Itai-yo! (Ouch!) Where does the extra T come from, all of a sudden? I expected "hashite". I would be most grateful again if someone would explain this to me. And I apologize, also again, for asking such newbie questions.