---I may be wrong ...but When you say:
"If you think in Japanese, intransitive and transitive verbs have the same meaning except that one indicates that someone had a direct hand in the action (direct object) while the other does not."
---You are saying about Passive voice & active voice, like:"I dropped the ball" is the active voice, because I DID the action, and "The ball WAS dropped"=Passive voice, because the Subject(Ball) suffered the action(by someone) in this case, by me.
---Transitive and Intransitive Verbs is about the need of the verb in have complement after the verb to the phrase have sense.
---"I cry" is a complete sentence. therefore it's a intrasitive (IN means Negation) because the verb doesnt need to "move"(Transitive comes from "Movement" in Latin) to have a complete sentence. In the phrase "I go to Japan" the verb to go need the complement "...go TO SOMEWHERE" to have a complete meaning, it needs this movement,complement(transitive).
---If you say to a stranger in the middle of the street: "I go"
he will probably ask"To where??"Because He doesnt Know what about you are talking(and doesnt have to Know...)
---I may be wrong ...but When
---I may be wrong ...but When you say:
"If you think in Japanese, intransitive and transitive verbs have the same meaning except that one indicates that someone had a direct hand in the action (direct object) while the other does not."
---You are saying about Passive voice & active voice, like:"I dropped the ball" is the active voice, because I DID the action, and "The ball WAS dropped"=Passive voice, because the Subject(Ball) suffered the action(by someone) in this case, by me.
---Transitive and Intransitive Verbs is about the need of the verb in have complement after the verb to the phrase have sense.
---"I cry" is a complete sentence. therefore it's a intrasitive (IN means Negation) because the verb doesnt need to "move"(Transitive comes from "Movement" in Latin) to have a complete sentence. In the phrase "I go to Japan" the verb to go need the complement "...go TO SOMEWHERE" to have a complete meaning, it needs this movement,complement(transitive).
---If you say to a stranger in the middle of the street: "I go"
he will probably ask"To where??"Because He doesnt Know what about you are talking(and doesnt have to Know...)