I can rememer that out of 下げる and 下がる one of them means “to lower” and one of the means “to fall” but I always get them wrong when they come up and can’t for the life of me remember which is which, how do I stop mixing them up and start being able to consistently get them right on tests instead of i…

I’m sure some people will have better answers than me but I did notice that for the “transitivish” verbs like to lower… something, the vowel sound before the u sound is often e, for the intransitivish one, to fall (you don’t fall something, you just fall), the vowel sound is a. I’m not saying this…

you can associate the vowels to the corresponding english words. 下げる → to lower 下がる → to fall

This kind of thing is actually going to come up a lot. Most people try to relate them to the english transitive/intransitive verbs, but my favorite youtuber came up with another approach. This video explains it pretty well. I really wish WaniKani had some of these explanations built in. […

Usually verbs with an “e” are transitive (meaning you are the one to do the action), and verbs with an “a” are intransitive (meaning that they happen on their own). So for “sageru,” it means you or someone else physically lowers something, but for “sagaru,” something falls down on its own.

In transitive-intransitive sets like that in Japanese, the intransitive version usually takes a vowel other than え, while the transitive version takes え. (Lots of あ, え pairs specifically for three-character words. But in two-character words you have things like つく, which is an intransitive “to be at…

Say 上がる Stand up. Say 上げる Raise your right hand. Say 下がる Sit down. Say 下げる Lower your right hand. Repeat this a few times and it should stick. Feeling silly while doing it will also help it stick. As will saying it in a sing-song voice. Preferably to the tune of Yakko’s World.

One of my references has also been this twitter thread: [image] 悪い大人の手本でいたいんだ @SwimmyLionni For those of you working through @WaniKaniApp , here's something I really wish the website had told me to start with. You might have already noticed these patterns; this is for those who haven't. …

[image] KittySCaveGirl: I can rememer that out of 下げる and 下がる one of them means “to lower” and one of the means “to fall” I’ll try to give a more precise version of the general rule that everyone else has set out above, to which I believe there are no exceptions: for an eru/aru pair, the eru …

Also there’s a corresponding post for this video here . In short though: 〜す = always transitive /aru/ and /eru/ pairs = /aru/ always intransitive and /eru/ always transitive /u/ and /eru/ pairs = the transitivity flips Sooooooo… for point 3: 〜む＞〜める = 〜む is intransitive and 〜める is transitive 〜ぶ＞…

How do I remember the difference in meanings between 下げる and 下がる?

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tomwamt July 17, 2020, 12:20am 8

Check out this thread for more hints: 下がる下げる止まる止める上げる etc

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How do I remember the difference in meanings between 下げる and 下がる?

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