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Torakobura. Post Date: 2003-02-21 04:15:38 [seve to notebook ‘saved questions
| was searching for the meaning of hanasemasu because | wanted to know
“any word * the dictionary form of the verb. The search came up with no entries from both
dictionaries. So | was wondering how does one go about finding the various
meanings a verb can have and its dictionary form?
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CCl JFZ_Goorge Post Date: 2003-02-21 08:55:14
B ‘Well if you understand how verbs are conjugated then you can simply
course 4 UNconjugate it to find the dictionary form. For example as tought in course 1
lesson 12 and other lessons you know that regular verbs are almost always
Coa} conjugated by changing the last hiragana into another form lke i-form or e-
form etc to do various conjugations and then MASU or MASEN etc verb
endings are added. IKU U\< is the dictionary form of “to go" and to conjugate
it you change the last KU