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- "Please read this passage."
"Please read this passage."
Translation:この文章を読んでください。
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That is an error. The hint system doesn't seem to function well with all hiragana sentences.
How do you know if you should use de or te with these imperative sentences telling someone to do something?
For the る verbs (e.g. ねる、食べる、みる), it's easy; just replace る with て.
For う verbs (e.g. かく、はなす、しる), look up the て-form song. The verb ending will change the て-form depending on the last letter:
う、つ、る --> って (-tte)
ぶ、む、ぬ --> んで
す --> して
く --> いて
ぐ --> いで
Irregular verbs:
する --> して
くる(来る) --> きて
いく(行く) --> いって (exception)
Like most conjugations, that depends on the verb. The standard is -te, with the following notes:
For verbs whose standard "dictionary form" (the 終止形 （しゅうしけい）) ends in -mu or -bu, the -te form becomes -nde. For example:
- 読む (よむ; 'to read') → 読んで
- 呼ぶ (よぶ; 'to call/yell') → 呼んで
For verbs that end in -ku, it becomes -ite. E.g.:
- 書く （かく; 'to write'）→ 書いて
- [sidenote: 行く （いく; 'to go'） is irregular: 行って]
For verbs that end in -tsu or -u, it becomes a double consonant: -tte. E.g.
- 待つ （まつ; 'to wait'）→ 待って
- 買う （かう; 'to buy'）→ 買って
All this also applies to the -ta form, which makes the informal past tense.
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Great answer. ^^
But just want to add a note that, even though they are almost always identical in modern Japanese, I believe the "dictionary form" is actually 終止形（しゅうしけい）rather than 連体形.
Oh, you're right, I mistook! Thanks for the correction; I've updated the above response too.
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I knowぶんしょう as 1. writing; composition; essay; article; prose; (writing) style and 2. sentence, but not as passage.
????????? what the hell is the difference between ぶんしょう and さくぶん? IT marked my sentence as wrong when I used さくぶん
ぶんしょう is a more general word for a line of text /a sentence, some writing. さくぶん is a product of formal writing, like an essay or speech.
How would you differentiate between an instruction to read a passage and one to read a sentence?
