Verb Practice Exercises
Vocabulary used in this section
Here is a list of a few verbs and the accompanying kanji that you will find useful.
I have listed the kanji you will need for the vocabulary for your convenience. The link will take you to a diagram of the stroke order. However, it doesn't clearly show the direction (though you can kind of tell by the animation) so you should check with a kanji dictionary if you're not sure. I recommend practicing the kanji in the context of real words (such as the ones below).
Here is a list of some common verbs you will definitely want to learn at some point.
- する - to do
- しゃべる - to talk; to chat
- 見る【みる】 - to see
- 来る【くる】 - to come
- 行く【いく】 - to go
- 帰る 【かえる】 - to go home
- 食べる 【たべる】 - to eat
- 飲む 【のむ】 - to drink
- 買う 【かう】 - to buy
- 売る 【うる】 - to sell
- 切る 【きる】 - to cut
- 入る 【はいる】 - to enter
- 出る 【でる】 - to come out
- 持つ 【もつ】 - to hold
- 待つ 【まつ】 - to wait
- 書く【かく】 - to write
- 読む 【よむ】 - to read
- 歩く 【あるく】 - to walk
- 走る 【はしる】 - to run
- 遊ぶ 【あそぶ】 - to play
Practice with Verb Classification
There's really not much to do at this point except to practice classifying verbs as either a ru-verb or an u-verb. You can also take this opportunity to learn some useful verbs if you do not know them already. We'll learn how to conjugate these verbs according to their category in the next few sections.
In the chart below, you should mark whether the given verb is either an u-verb or a ru-verb. The first answer is given as an example of what you need to do. Obviously, verbs that do not end in 「る」 are always going to be u-verbs so the tricky part is figuring out the category for verbs that end in 「る」. Remember that verbs that do not end in "eru" or "iru" will always be u-verbs. While most verbs that do end in "eru" or "iru" are ru-verbs, to make things interesting, I've also included a number of u-verbs that also end in eru/iru. Though you do not need to memorize every word in the list by any means, you should at least memorize the basic verbs.
| verb | ru-verb | u-verb | exception verb |
| 行く | ● | ||
| 出る | ● | ||
| する | ● | ||
| 買う | ● | ||
| 売る | ● | ||
| 食べる | ● | ||
| 入る | ● | ||
| 来る | ● | ||
| 飲む | ● | ||
| しゃべる | ● | ||
| 見る | ● | ||
| 切る | ● | ||
| 帰る | ● | ||
| 書く | ● |
Hi, Just wondering why iku is
Hi,
Just wondering why iku is a U-verb and not an exception? When you change into te form, it doesn't follow the rules of U-verbs. If it was a true U-verb, wouldn't the te form be iite? Or is this an exception in the U-verb section?
Any advice appreciated.
I'm actually Chinese myself,
I'm actually Chinese myself, therefore it is not that difficult to learn a language that roots from my native language. Though Grade 2 level "Kanji" is my peak, I find Kanji in Japanese quite self-explanatory (having the background knowledge of kanji already), and quite easy to learn. It's just the many different pronunciations that confuses me, and also the fact that the Japanese version of certain Kanji can vary from the Chinese version (such as "Zhan" and "Sen" [戰] and [戦]), but that doesn't really bother me that much. In fact, the fact that Kanji has the ability to sound like its Chinese counterpart makes it easier to learn.
Japanese borrowed a lot of
Japanese borrowed a lot of vocabulary from chinese, but Chinese is not the origin of Japanese. The Japonic language family is considered an isolate, meaning they don't know where it came from. The most accepted theories for languages geneologically related to Japanese are Goguryeo (used in ancient korea), Korean, and Turkish. But this is only speculation. [says Wikipedia]
Why is 切る(kiru) considered a
Why is 切る(kiru) considered a u-verb instead of a ru-verb? A bit confused
kiru - to cut (godan) is one
kiru - to cut (godan) is one of exceptions. There are some verbs which ends in -eru/iru and despite that are u-verbs. You can see more about this on the previous lesson, about verb basics. There is an appendix with some of these verbs there.
kiru has both an ichidan and
kiru has both an ichidan and godan meaning.
kiru - cut (godan)
kiru - to wear/put on (ichidan)
kirimasu - to cut
kimasu - to wear/put on
Yes, but aren't the kanji
Yes, but aren't the kanji different?
This is correct. 着る (きる)
This is correct.
着る (きる) means to "wear" something. ex:シャツを着ていた ( was wearing (a) shirt)
切る (きる） means to "cut" something. ex:きゅうりを切った ( cut (a) cucumber)
To say that "kiru" has two different meanings is very misleading as they are two entirely different words whose nonconjugated forms just happen to sound the same.
Do ru-verbs = ichidan verbs
Do ru-verbs = ichidan verbs and u-verbs = godan verbs?
no, not all verbs ending in
no, not all verbs ending in "ru' are ichidan. Take on hashiru and shaberu for example. they both end in ru however they are treated as godan verbs.
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