About Te Form in Japanese As far as I know, even some of adcanced Japanese learners are often confused about conjugation and uses of the te-form in Japanese. When I was in school, I learned the Japanese grammar rules indluding that as a first language mostly for writing. I already forgot how I worked on them back then, so I looked it up on the internet and found some educational videos about a song called "the te-form song (て形の歌)". You can see some clips about it on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BEnw7J6hiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW1YcozsWh4 Here is some examples regarding conjugating to the te-form. The endings う(u), つ(tsu) and る(ru) become って(tte). The endings む(mu), ぶ(bu) and ぬ(nu) become んで(nde). The ending く(ku) becomes いて(ite). The ending ぐ(gu) becomes いで(ide). The verb する(suru) which means "to do" in English becomes して(shite). etc... When you conjugate the verb suru(する) to the te-form, you need to pay attention to what that means. If that is written only in Hiragana, that means "to do" and the te-form becomes "shite". However, that has some homophones such as 擦る which means "to scrape, to scrub or to rub", 刷る which means "to print" and so on. In those cases, you could focus on the ending "ru" and the te-form becomes "su(tt)te".