Can you guys make a style guide or something and then stick to it? Does a transitive verb need me to say “to X something” or not? 建てる: “to build something” → wrong 足す: “to add something” required, cannot leave off “something” While we’re at it, can we make the counters be consistently “counter fo…

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[image] Tips for learning transitive & intransitive verbs? Tips & Tricks Hello! slight_smile I go to Japanese class at university, and our final test is next week. One of the important topics is transitive and intransitive verbs. I’m a language student, and I don’t have tr…

Not that this helps, but I was curious of the statistics… There are 531 vocab marked as “transitive verb” on Wanikani. Of those, only 80 contain “something” in at least one of the accepted meanings. Which leaves 451 that don’t accept answers containing “something”. I’m assuming that, in many cas…

I thought I read somewhere that it’s a current/ fairly new initiative to become consistent with adding the “something” to the acceptable answers. Maybe there’s the disconnect because the work is ongoing?

Interesting. How many require the “something”, as in, there are no acceptable answers without it? Maybe I’ve discovered the only one by accident in 足す. I don’t actually mind either way. I have always mentally added the “something” (when it makes grammatical sense) to keep the transitive and intrans…

[image] ctmf: How many require the “something”, as in, there are no acceptable answers without it? Exactly half, i.e. 40. [editing… oops, my query has an error. 1min…]

[image] ctmf: I don’t actually mind either way. I’ll say that stronger/differently. I like it! Just, someone’s got to decide if it’s required/optional, permitted/not permitted and be consistent about it.

I’ve had so much pain with 力一杯! I entered with one’s all might or something and it marked it as wrong ;-;.

Update… I was right – though only by coincidence – about 40 vocab requiring ‘something’. ▶ The List

[image] rfindley: 試みる Oh yeah, definitely failed that one before for just that reason.

Oh FFS already

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Oh FFS already

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