Shouldn't transitive verbs allow the form "___ something" generally?

[doncr]

So that was an interesting question.

I took all the verbs marked transitive or intransitive and the excluded cases where they are marked as both (e.g. 引く). That resulted in 816 words.

Then I grouped those words based on the characters with hiragana removed so as to group them by base kanji. That resulted in 621 base kanji groups containing 816 individual words.

And then finally I selected only groups that contained at least one transitive verb and at least one intransitive verb. I was surprised that this list went down to only 156 base kanji groups containing 335 individual words.

To conclude:

WK only has 156 verb groups* (same kanji, different okurigana) that contains at least one transitive verb and at least one intransitive verb.

* Groups and not just pairs because some groups (e.g. 上) have more than two words in them.

Verb stems that have at least one transitive and at least one intransitive

Slug	SlugNoHiragana	Meaning	Transitive	Intransitive
上る	上	To Climb	False	True
上がる	上	To Rise	False	True
上げる	上	To Raise	True	False
下げる	下	To Lower	True	False
下がる	下	To Get Lower	False	True
並べる	並	To Line Up	True	False
並ぶ	並	To Be Lined Up	False	True
乗せる	乗	To Give A Ride	True	False
乗る	乗	To Ride	False	True
乱す	乱	To Put In Disorder	True	False
乱れる	乱	To Be In Disorder	False	True
乾かす	乾	To Dry Something	True	False
乾く	乾	To Get Dry	False	True
交わる	交	To Intersect	False	True
交じる	交	To Be Mixed	False	True
交ぜる	交	To Mix	True	False
付く	付	To Be Attached	False	True
付ける	付	To Attach	True	False
代える	代	To Replace	True	False
代わる	代	To Replace	False	True

… and so on.

Excluded verb stems

I looked at the excluded words and it looked correct to me:

Slug	SlugNoHiragana	Meaning	Transitive	Intransitive
与える	与	To Give	True	False
乗り換える	乗換	To Transfer	True	False
争う	争	To Compete	False	True
亡くなる	亡	To Pass Away	False	True
仰ぐ	仰	To Look Up At	True	False
企てる	企	To Plan	True	False
伏せる	伏	To Cover	True	False
休む	休	To Rest	False	True
会う	会	To Meet	False	True
伴う	伴	To Accompany	False	True
伺う	伺	To Inquire	True	False
似る	似	To Resemble	False	True
似合う	似合	To Suit	False	True
住む	住	To Live	False	True
余る	余	To Be In Surplus	False	True
作る	作	To Make	True	False
使う	使	To Use	True	False
供える	供	To Make An Offering	True	False
侮る	侮	To Despise	True	False
侵す	侵	To Invade	True	False

… and so on.

@"Liras

I don’t really think so. I just did a quick check and there seem to be less than 600 Transitive verbs taught on WK. They’re also already tagged so extracting them shouldn’t be difficult, someone would simply have to change the meaning and mass replace/add them back in.

I don’t know what their internal systems look like and how many people they can put on the job but it doesn’t sound like a huge undertaking. I’d probably even do it for them because I really want this change as well.

So 335 words ain’t so bad.