Compound verbs are very interesting to me, a little bit more so than regular verbs. The meanings are quite logical in a Japanese sense of thinking and are fun to learn, never-the-less.
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Here’s a fun one.
かみ殺す (from 噛む “to bite” and 殺す “to kill”) can literally mean “to bite to death,” but it more mundanely means “to stifle a yawn or laugh.”
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I like the ren’youkei+mawaru verbs, ie 走り回る、泳ぎ回る. The first learned with WK, of course, second one I was able to extrapolate by myself
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