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Godan verbs as causative

Godan verbs as causative

Oct 22, 20251 min read

Godan verbs are made causative by performing an あ-stem transformation and appending the causative helper verb せる.1

Example

買う (buy) → 買わせる (cause to buy)

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買う is transformed by shifting from the う-stem to the あ-stem. せる is then appended to make it into the causative form.

Footnotes

  1. Japanese from Scratch (7.5) ↩


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Backlinks

  • 7.5. Japanese conjugation made easy! The super-simple key to all conjugations
  • Godan verb あ-stem

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