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  • October 23, 2014 at 8:41 am #46675

    MattR
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    Hi, I’m currently on season 4, chapter 5-5. With the nominal adjectives, an example sentence was used.

    水　を　いっぱい　入れました

    What caught my eye was that I learned 入れる as part of my kanji vocab deck. Since 入れる means ‘to insert’, does one get the stem form of a verb by removing the る from the ‘to _____’ form so ます, ました, じゃありません or じゃありませんでした could be added? Or is this topic covered in a future lesson I haven’t reached yet?

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    October 23, 2014 at 9:50 am #46676

    thisiskyle
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    Uh….TF doesn’t cover this before season 4?

    Look at this site. Lesson 2 and lesson 3 address your question specifically, but the site as a whole is a very good resource for getting started with verbs.

    October 23, 2014 at 12:05 pm #46679

    Joel
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    TextFugu covers it in season five: http://www.textfugu.com/season-5/dict-verbs/

    Short answer: you’re correct in this case, but only because 入れる happens to be a る-verb. There’s two types of verbs in Japanese (and two irregular verbs) and they conjugate differently. =)

    October 23, 2014 at 1:40 pm #46681

    MattR
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    Alright, thank you for the help. I was worried that there mightn’t a lesson for that.

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