五段活用. Verbs like のむ and あるく, which conjugate by changing their last kana, e.g. のまない, のみます, のむ, のめば, のもう.
Questions tagged [godan-verbs]
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What's the difference between Ichidan/Godan and Ru/U verbs classification?
I've come across two different ways (at least, apparently for me) to classify verbs. Please note that this question is fundamentally different from Verb classifications by japanese learners.
The first classification is to divide verbs into Godan and…
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Why does くださる have an irregular infinitive form (ください)?
I may be using the wrong term, but I understand the infinitive form of a verb in Japanese to be the form we add ～ます to. In the case of ichidan verbs, we take away the ～る and add ～ます、and for godan verbs we change the ending う-line to an い-line and…
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Causative-Passive Verbs: Vせられる and Vされる
Looking at the answer to this question, it seems that both 行かせられる and 行かされる are valid forms of the causative-passive of 行く. I've only been taught the first usage, so I have a number of related questions regarding the difference between the two.
Is…
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What exactly are ア行-category verbs?
The question Why are there so many カ行、サ行、ラ行五段活用 verbs? is about different verb categories. I was surprised to find a ア行-category mentioned, and when I checked on weblio, they seemed to have listed only four verbs in this category, at least for 五段…
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湿気る is both godan and ichidan. Are there other verbs like this?
I recently noticed in passing that 湿気る is classified as both a godan and an ichidan verb.
For example, the past tense could be either:
しけった (godan)
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しけた (ichidan).
This strikes me as being fairly unusual. Offhand, I can't think of any other…
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How do Japanese people infer if a verb is a ichidan verb or a godan ending in ru?
In Japan, if a Japanese person sees a new verb ending in ru, what would they do to try and infer if it's a ichidan or godan verb before just looking it up or asking someone?
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What is the difference between 「届け」and 「届ける」？
Found a phrase on article which says,
写真{しゃしん}をお届{とど}け!
i don't think it's meireikei, so why the verb doesn't end with ru?
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Potential form for godan verb: register's/dialectical differences?
According to all standard book and webpage I consulted, godan verb's potential form are produced by first changing to え (e) form, and then add in る (ru).
But a native Japanese speaker (who is also fluent in English) told me that what needed to be…
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Why is the potential form of 滑る 滑れる and not 滑られる？
For る-verbs we usually drop る and replace it with られる but I noticed this exception?
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「あまもり」と一段動詞「もれる」
天井などに欠陥があって，あめがふったときなどに，みずがもれだしてくることは「あまもり」といいます．しかし，この語の後半「もり」と関係があるとおもわれる動詞「もれる」は一段活用です．その連用形を名詞としてもちいているのだとすれば「もれ」でなくてはなりません．このことから，かつては，「もれる」とおなじ意味の「もる」という五段動詞があったのではないかとおもいたくなります．本当にそのような動詞があったのでしょうか？…
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About the Potential Form of Verbs 「られる」
The Potential Form (can) usually is conjugated by replacing whatever verb ending is based on the verb group.
However, I noticed that some verbs such as たべられる can also be written as たべれる. What's the distinction between using られる and れる? Moreover, can…
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だ and です godan or ichidan
Can we say, that だ and です are godan verbs with ru-ending, because they are just simplyfied versions of である and であります?
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いる/える Godan Verb Rules?
For words like 帰ります is there a specific reason they're Godan instead of Ichidan in any case? Things like a change from an historical pronunciation of the word, grammar relating to the radicals of the character or is it literally random with each of…
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一段動詞が五段動詞に進化できますか？
日本語の文法では五段動詞の方が一段動詞より多いです。文法が変化すると、一段動詞が五段動詞に変化する可能性がありますか？
私は日本語を練習したいです。上手くなければすみません。
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Distinguishing 「話し」 する and 五段 usage
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The noun はなし can be written 話 or 話し.
In colloquial contexts, you can omit 「を」 from 話{はなし}をする, making it 話{はなし}する.
There is also a 五段 verb, 話す{はなす}.
The continuative (連用形) form of both 話する and 話す can look like 話し.
The problem
From the facts,…
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