Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Lesson 8: The て-Form

In this lesson, you will learn how to conjugate verbs into the -form.

The -form is used for three purposes: a form to conjugate off of, like the ます-stem; an informal way to give a command; and a way to connect two sentences. I will cover its use as a way to give a command in the next lesson and cover how it connects sentences in a later lesson.

To conjugate a verb into the -form, you first take the plain past tense of the verb then replace either the ending with or the ending with , i.e. たべた→たべて, しんだ→しんで, and した→して. This conjugation covers both Group 1 and Group 2 verbs and する and 来る. The -form of (to be) is .

That is all for this lesson. Even though none of its uses has been covered yet, the -form is a very useful form to know.

John

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome! I didn't know -te form was so simple to get.

Anonymous said...

This is an excellent resource that I'll be sure to keep up with. Good work!