{"id":123,"date":"2009-09-15T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=123"},"modified":"2009-09-15T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:14:10","slug":"ru-verbs-versus-u-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/ru-verbs-versus-u-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"RU Verbs Versus U Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous post, you’ve seen that just because a verb ends in ru (\u308b<\/strong>) doesn’t mean it’s necessarily an u (\u3046<\/strong>) verb. Here’s a tip to help you separate the true ru verbs versus the false ones. When the verb has an iru (\u3044\u308b<\/strong>)\u00a0or eru (\u3048\u308b<\/strong>)\u00a0ending, it is truely a ru verb. For example, a verb like okiru (\u304a\u304d\u308b<\/strong>)(\u8d77\u304d\u308b<\/strong>)(to get up) is a true ru verb because it has the iru ending. However let’s look at the verb naoru (\u306a\u304a\u308b<\/strong>)(\u76f4\u308b<\/strong>)(to be cured, to be healed). Although naoru ends in ru, it doesn’t have the iru or eru ending. (Naoru has the oru ending.)\u00a0Therefore naoru is an u verb.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, the method listed above is a good way to determine whether a Japanese verb is an ru or u verb. However, there are exceptions. With these verbs, you won’t be able to use the rule above to determine whether the verb is a ru or u verb. For these verbs you’ll just have to memorize the group or class in which they belong.<\/p>\n

The following list of verbs are all u verbs but they have the iru or eru ending. Again, verbs that end in iru or eru or normally ru verbs, but these verbs happen to be the exception:<\/p>\n

kaeru (\u304b\u3048\u308b<\/strong>)(\u5e30\u308b<\/strong>) to return<\/p>\n

hairu (\u306f\u3044\u308b<\/strong>)(\u5165\u308b<\/strong>) to enter<\/p>\n

shaberu (\u3057\u3083\u3079\u308b<\/strong>)(\u558b\u308b<\/strong>) to chatter<\/p>\n

iru (\u3044\u308b<\/strong>)(\u8981\u308b<\/strong>) to need<\/p>\n

shiru (\u3057\u308b<\/strong>)(\u77e5\u308b<\/strong>) to know<\/p>\n

To complicate matters, there are two verbs that do not belong to an ru or u group of verbs.<\/p>\n

suru (\u3059\u308b<\/strong>) to do (usually not written in kanji)<\/p>\n

kuru (\u304f\u308b<\/strong>)(\u6765\u308b<\/strong>) to come<\/p>\n

Since these verbs are irregular, you won’t be able to just take off the ru and add masu to the stem. Just memorize these forms for the present tense.<\/p>\n

shimasu (\u3057\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

kimasu (\u304d\u307e\u3059<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the previous post, you’ve seen that just because a verb ends in ru (\u308b) doesn’t mean it’s necessarily an u (\u3046) verb. Here’s a tip to help you separate the true ru verbs versus the false ones. When the verb has an iru (\u3044\u308b)\u00a0or eru (\u3048\u308b)\u00a0ending, it is truely a ru verb. For example…<\/p>\n

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