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Te Form
In this lesson，I will teach you how to convert Japanese verbs to Te Form.
What does Te Form Mean?
| Te form means “please xxx”，For example，食べて means “Please eat”. Note: ①〜て is not polite enough to use to your superiors (it’s okay to use it to your friends and subordinates), instead, you can use 〜ていただけますか to your superiors. ②There are other usages of Te Form，I will explain them in the grammar lessons. |
Type-1 Verb
| Pattern | How to convert? |
| ○う、○つ、○る | change う/つ/る to って. Examples: 会う→会って (Meaning: to meet) 打つ→打って (Meaning: to beat) やる→やって (Meaning: to do) |
| ○く, ○ぐ | change く to いて, change ぐ to いで. Examples: 書く→書いて (Meaning: to write) 嗅ぐ→嗅いで (Meaning: to smell) |
| ○ぬ、○ぶ、○む | change ぬ/ぶ/む to んで. Examples: 死ぬ→死んで (Meaning: to die) 呼ぶ→呼んで (Meaning: to call) 読む→読んで (Meaning: to read) |
| xx-す | change す to して. Examples: 押す→押して (Meaning: to press) 話す→話して (Meaning: to talk) 壊す→壊して (Meaning: to break) |
| 行く(the only exception) | 行く→行って (Meaning: to go) |
Type-2 Verb & Type-3 Verb & Irregular Verb
| Verb Type | How to convert? |
| Type-2 Verb | Change る to て. Examples: 食べる→食べて (Meaning: to eat) 降りる→降りて (Meaning: to get down) 起きる→起きて (Meaning: to wake up) |
| Type-3 Verb | Change する to して. Examples: 勉強する→勉強して (Meaning: to learn) 結婚する→結婚して (Meaning: to marry) 連絡する→連絡して (Meaning: to come through) |
| Irregular Verb | する → して (Meaning: to do) 来る → 来て (Meaning: to come) |
Negative Te Form:
| If you want to convert Te Form to Negative Te Form, you can convert the verb to Negative Form, and add で in the end. Examples: 会って→会わないで 食べて→食べないで 勉強して→勉強しないで |
Polite Te Form:
| If you want to convert Te Form to Polite Te Form, you can convert the verb to Polite Form, and change the す in the end to して. Examples: 会います→会いまして 食べます→食べまして 勉強します→勉強しまして |
Example Sentences:
| ドアを開けて。 Please open the door. お昼を食べて。 Please have lunch. 数学を勉強して。 Please learn math. 学校に行かないで。 Please don’t go to school. 本を読まないで。 Please don’t read books. |
Below is a nice song to help you remember Te Form.
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Is there a way to remember which verbs are which て form, or is it just a memorization thing?
You can classify the pattern by the hiragana in the end of the verb.If the verb is xx-う，like 会う（あう)，買（か）うthen the Te form should be 会って，買って.
ありがとうございます！
You are welcome!
How is Polite Form different from Te Form? I mean, isnt Te form quite “polite” too? (“please”)
I answered your question below the table of this lesson. You can refer it, if you have further questions, just let me know.
Ah it takes time but I think I got the idea. I will take a look at Imperative Form later and refer to this again I guess.
ドアを開けてください。Does this also work?
ドアを開けていただけませんか。And isn’t ません negative form?
ドアを開けてください ✓
ドアを開けていただけませんか。you see か in the end, so it’s a question. question＋negative=positive.
You made a mistake with the number of the parts.
In the section about the u-verbs, there are 5 cases (1st: u-verbs ending with う, つ, る; 2nd: u-verbs ending with く, ぐ; 3rd: u-verbs ending with ぬ, ぶ, む; 4th: u-verbs ending with す; 5th: exception) altogether, including the exception. You marked the second case (u-verbs ending with く, ぐ) as #1 again.
I corrected it already! Thanks for the info! （Because I just copied the similar part to save time）
So, what’s the real difference between the verbal form て and the question with てください??? is one more polite than the other or what?
Thanks in advance!!
oh, I find it easy. It’s similar to the past tense.
Yes!
Found a nice song to help us remember 😀 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-P-nEPoe0
Added the video to the lesson already! Nice video!
Is it correct to say 本 を よまないで です か。As in “Do you not read books?”
It should be 本を読まないですか
I tried to take the (て form) part of the quiz but what makes me difficult is the る part because the formula has two っ て and て, so when do we use っ て and て correctly?
check out the hiragana before る.
If it’s i-column（い、き、に…）or e-column，then it’s て. other situations, it’s って
I think you’d better review the lesson for Te Form, I explained it in detail in that lesson.
i got it now, thank you
0.0 i fell in love with the voice singing the て form in the video. lmao
Thanks so much Marshall 😀
Glad you like it😆
hey I have this question so I scrolled down the comments to see if someone already asked the question and that was the case. ichirou2910 asked if the te form was polite and you said that you left a note below the table of this lesson but I can’t seem to find your answer so I was wondering where it would be?
thank you!
Te form is not very polite if you use て alone, for example, 食べて.
But you can use if you use て＋いただけますか, for example, 食べていただけますか
~ていただけます is a grammar rule.
Is it ていただけませんか more polite thanてください, or we can use both equally?
yes, いただけませんか is more polite