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conjugation verb: IKU

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sodapple
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conjugation verb: IKU

Postby sodapple » July 15th, 2008 6:27 pm

:roll: I didn't see this verb is irregular, can you help me to conjugate it. I need all the forms like the TE form.
Are there more verbs like these?
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Postby Belton » July 15th, 2008 6:50 pm

it's only partially irregular

the te form is 行って rather than 行いて as you might expect of a く verb.
and the ta form is 行った。

apart from that it's regular.

来る and する are the only irregular verbs and they aren't very irregular.

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Postby Psy » July 15th, 2008 11:00 pm

Except for the honorifics (くださるー>くださいます, etc) you're pretty well set. Writing a full list of verb conjugations is the stuff textbooks are made of, seeing as a mastery of the verb conjugations is one of the milestones in learning Japanese.

For the stem-forms, you can follow the five dans of the kana table:

for the verb いく

あー>いか (ない)
いー>いき (ます)
うー>いく
えー>いけ (ません)
おー>いこう
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Postby JonB » July 15th, 2008 11:33 pm

I've come to the conclusion that all verbs are irregular in Japanese - it is more a degree of their irregularity :cry:

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Postby Psy » July 16th, 2008 3:48 am

Huh? The verbs in Japanese are shockingly regular-- well over 90% of them. The trick is learning all of the various conjugations. What made you come to that conclusion?
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