“~te” Form Sunday, Jan 22 2006
Level 2 12:20 pm
So far we have learned how to convert to “~masu” & “~katta” form. Today I will show you how to convert into “~te” form. “Te” is use in connection with the following words :
~te can be used for combination of 2 adjectives. Example : Yasui Desu. Oishii Desu. (Cheap. Delicious) - Yasukute oishii desu. Other usage will be :
Tabete kudasai (Please Eat) - Requesting
Tabete imasu (Eating) - Similar to the “~ing” in English
Tabete arimasu (I have been eaten) - Something has been done
Kaite okimasu (I have wrote it) - Do something in advance / in preparation
Tabete mimasu (Eat and see) - Trying something and see how is the result
Tabete shimaimashita (I have completely eaten) - To imply something which is completed
Tabete ikimasu (Go and eat) - Saying something that is going to happen
Tabete hoshii (Want to eat) - Wanted to do something
I will cover each usage above later after this lesson on how to convert normal form to ~te form
| Normal Form Kau (Buy) Kaku (Write) Oyogu (Swim) Hanasu (Talk) Matsu (Wait) Hakobu (Carry) Nomu (Drink) Uru (Sell) Special Words |
~masu form Kaimasu Kakimasu Oyogimasu Hanashimasu Machimasu Hakobimasu Nomimasu Urimasu Special Words |
~te form Ka Ka Oyo Hana Ma Hako No U Special Words |
It is a little confuse for the conversion. With a little more practise, you will be able to master it. Later, I will cover the lesson on how to combine 2 adjectives using ~te form. Stay Tune!!!
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January 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 pm
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January 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
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February 7th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Tony, is there a rule for knowing if the ~te form of a verb ends in “de” instead of the “te”?
thank you so much in advance!
February 7th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Hi Colin,
Yes, there is. Verbs end with “gu”, “bu”, “mu” will be “de” in the conversion.
gu - ide (oyogu - oyoide)
bu - nde (yobu - yonde)
mu - nde (tanomu - tanonde)
Hope this help
February 8th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Colin, sorry for mentioning your name as Susan. This mistake was made because I was writing a reply to Susan in another post and mistakenly type her name in here.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Sorry, but some stuff you said is incorrect, misleading or incomplete.
te iru (imasu) is not just ~ing. te can carry a feeling of completion. ~te iru can express an ongoing state/action, or a resultant state. “to be V-ing” “have V-ed” (The latter not talking about experiences, but saying you exist in the resultant state)
kekkon shite iru can mean “I am marrying” (in the church right now) or “I am married” (I married an exist in the resultant state.
te aru…saying something “has been done” is not incorrect but misleading. This is used with TRANSITIVE verbs. It impies that there was a “doer” of the action, while ~te iru does not.
Example
Mado ga aite iru - The window is open
“it’s just open, not saying anyone did it, just merely describing the window”
Mado ga akete aru - The window is open [implying that someone opened it]
Aite is te form of Aku - to be(come) open, to open (intransitive)
Akete is te form of akeru - to open (transitive)
te miru - literally means “do and see how turns out” but is often translated to “try”
te iku does not mean go and do something. It can mean “do something and then go” or in a more abstract, harder to explain usage, the focus of the action is going into the future.
Go and eat = tabe ni iku.
te shimatta also carries a negative nuance as in something that wasn’t desired. Like say you forget to do your homework, or your goldfish died.
te hoshii - is not want to do something, that is the ~tai form. -te hoshii is when [you] want [someone else] to do something.
Other usages of -te form.
To express a chain of actions in sequential order.
To express a weak reason/cause.
to express a method/means.
To show a special kind of emphasis.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Hi John,
Thanks for your detail explanation. Really appreciate it.
Sorry that I am not able to explain as detail as what you have explained.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am
thanks .
but I have one question .!
what different between kau and Kaimasu and Katte and Meaning is buy.. !!
and when I can Use this verbs ?
thanks again
September 17th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Hi Memo,
Kau = Buy (Normal Form - Friend’s Talk)
Kaimasu - Buy (Same as “Kau” but this is Polite Form)
Katte Iru (Buying) ; Katte Imasu (Polite Form)
Hope this help
March 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I noticed that you had “yobu” converted to “yonde” but isn’t yonde the te form of yomimasu who’s dictionary form is yomu not “yobu” if you could clarify that would be great.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hi Greg,
Yes, Yobu & Yomu used ~nde when converting to “te” form. That means “Yonde” can be represented by “Yomu (Read)” or “Yobu (Call)”
Hope this help. Thanks
September 16th, 2008 at 6:23 am
For the te form, particularly the group 1 verbs (the last three are group 3) I teach my class a song to the tune “Oh my Darling Clementime”
i, chi, ri - tte
bi, mi, ni - nde
ki - ite
gi - ide
shimasu - shite
kimasu - kite
ikimasu - itte
September 16th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Great Kate
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
hey please can someone tell me some source of japanesse grammar? I need it for my presentation I need some parafrasion from some book or something just tell me the name of the book please