{"id":484,"date":"2013-06-05T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2013-06-05T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:16:48","slug":"u-and-ru-verbs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/grammar-index\/genki-i-ii-grammar-index\/u-and-ru-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"u and ru verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>\u3046 and \u308b verbs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Differentiation between\u00a0<em>u<\/em>-verbs and\u00a0<em>ru<\/em>-verbs is simple.<br \/>\nAll verbs that end in\u00a0<em>u\u00a0<\/em>except verbs that end with\u00a0<em>ru<\/em>\u00a0are\u00a0<em>u<\/em>-verbs.<br \/>\nThere are\u00a0<em>u<\/em>-verbs that end in\u00a0<em>ru\u00a0<\/em>however. The way to tell\u00a0<em>ru<\/em>-verbs and\u00a0<em>u<\/em>-verbs that end in\u00a0<em>ru\u00a0<\/em>apart is to look at the vowel sound preceding the ending\u00a0<em>ru<\/em>. If there is an\u00a0<em>i<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>e<\/em>\u00a0before the\u00a0<em>ru\u00a0<\/em>it is a\u00a0<em>ru<\/em>-verb. If the\u00a0<em>ru\u00a0<\/em>is proceeded by any other vowel, the verb is an\u00a0<em>u<\/em>verb.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of \u3046 verbs:<br \/>\n\u3088\u3080- To read<br \/>\n\u304b\u304f- To write<br \/>\n\u306e\u308b- To ride<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examles of \u308b verbs:<br \/>\n\u305f\u3079\u308b- To eat<br \/>\n\u307f\u308b- To look or to see<br \/>\n\u306d\u308b- To sleep<\/p>\n<p>Exceptions:<br \/>\n\u304b\u3048\u308b- To return(<em>u<\/em>-verb)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3046 and \u308b verbs Differentiation between\u00a0u-verbs and\u00a0ru-verbs is simple. All verbs that end in\u00a0u\u00a0except verbs that end with\u00a0ru\u00a0are\u00a0u-verbs. There are\u00a0u-verbs that end in\u00a0ru\u00a0however. The way to tell\u00a0ru-verbs and\u00a0u-verbs that end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}