giving/receiving verbs (授受表現)

grammar

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The system of three verb groups marking direction of giving in Japanese: あげる/くれる (give, distinguished by direction relative to in-group) and もらう (receive). The same logic extends to benefactive auxiliaries ~てあげる, ~てくれる, ~てもらう. One of the trickiest grammatical systems for English-speaking learners because English doesn't morphologically encode in-group direction.

159 sentences