Learning Them
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
Let’s take a look at this table. Be sure to look at both the transitive and intransitive version of each verb. You’ll recognize a lot of verbs, but probably only one side or the other. Both are important. After you’ve carefully looked through each one, download the Anki deck and import it to your “TextFugu Vocab” deck.
Don’t pay too close attention to the kanji – it’s there because I want you to start seeing more kanji now that you’re getting better at it, though only some of the words below will have kanji you’ve learned so far.
| Transitive | Meaning | Intransitive |
Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 決める（きめる） | to decide | 決まる（きまる） | to be decided |
| 汚す（よごす） | to make dirty | 汚れる（よごれる） | to get dirty |
| 戻す（もどす） | to restore | 戻る（もどる） | to return |
| 起こす（おこす） | to wake something up | 起きる（おきる） | to wake up |
| 出す（だす） | to put/take out | 出る（でる） | to leave / come out |
| 落とす（おとす） | knock down | 落ちる（おちる） | to fall |
| 止める（とめる） | to stop something | 止まる（とまる） | to stop |
| 入れる（いれる） | to insert | 入る（はいる） | to enter |
| 閉める（しめる） | to close | 閉まる（しまる） | to be closed |
| 開ける（あける） | to open | 開く（あく） | to be opened |
| つける | to attach | つく | to be attached |
| 消す（けす） | to erase * | 消える（きえる） | to disappear * |
| 壊す（こわす） | to break | 壊れる（こわれる） | to be broken |
| 届ける（とどける） | to send / deliver | 届く（とどく） | to be delivered / to arrive |
| 見つける（みつける） | to find | 見つかる（みつかる） | to be found |
| 始める（はじめる） | to begin something | 始まる（はじまる） | to begin |
| 増やす（ふやす） | to increase something | 増える（ふえる） | to be increased |
| 立てる（たてる） | to stand something up | 立つ（たつ） | to stand |
| 乗る（のる） | to board | 乗せる（のせる） | to be boarded |
| 返す（かえす） | to bring back | 変える（かえる） | to return |
| 直す（なおす） | to repair | 直る（なおる） | to be repaired |
| 倒す（たおす） | to overthrow | 倒れる（たおれる） | to fall / tumble |
| 集める（あつめる） | to collect something | 集まる（あつまる） | to gather |
| 掛ける（かける） | to hang up | 掛かる（かかる） | to hang |
| 焼く（やく） | to burn | 焼ける（やける） | to be burned |
| 見る（みる） | to see | 見える（みえる） | to be visible |
| 聞く（きく） | to hear | 聞こえる（きこえる） | to be audible |
* When it comes to turning off things that run on electricity (lights, televisions, etc), you’ll also see this verb being used. You are “erasing” the light when you turn something off (also used as an example above).
I want you to start studying these in your “TextFugu Vocab” deck (import this). It’s kind of a tough list, but we’re going to go through more examples of these through this chapter and future chapters as well.
Transitive & Intransitive Verbs
When you’ve imported it and studied some, you can move on to the next page where we’ll look more at how these verbs work (and when to use which).