📄️ Completed Actions: てしまう
しまう is an auxiliary verb which is used to indicate the completion of an action.
📄️ Giving and Denying Permission Using the Te-Form
Giving and denying permission is what language is all about... Not really, but it's extremely useful to know how to ask whether you're able to do something or not, and to tell others if they can or can't do something.
📄️ How to use ている
If you see or hear ている used in a sentence, it usually means one of two things:
📄️ I'm Glad That: てよかったです
Use てよかったです to say that you're glad that something has happened.
📄️ Linking Together Two (or more) Activities Using the Te-Form
Sequential Linking
📄️ Making Requests in Japanese Using the Te-Form
It's easy to make requests in Japanese once you know the `te-form by combining verbs in the te-form with the word 下さい`.
📄️ Need Not - なくてもいいです
If you would like to say somebody need not do something, or somebody doesn't have to do something, for example, 'you don't have to bring your own lunch', you use なくてもいいです.
📄️ The Te-Form
The te-form is one of the most useful forms in Japanese and you will find it in all sorts of grammatical constructs.
📄️ The Teoku-Form
ておく can be added to the end of a verb to transform the verb into one that is performed in preparation for something. The thing that is being prepared for, does not have to be stated explicitly, and can simply be inferred through context.
📄️ Trying Something with て見る
て見る is used following verbs to say that you tried or are trying to do something.
📄️ Using てある
The te-form of a verb can be combined with ある to express that something has happened on purpose or with intent.
📄️ Using てほしい
て欲しい differs from the more commonly used phrase, が欲しい. While が欲しい is used in combination with a noun to mean you want that noun, て欲しい is used in combination with a verb to say you want somebody to do something or something from somebody.
📄️ Even if with ても
The conjunction is used to link two sentences and means 'even if'. Placed between Sentence X and Sentence Y it means 'Y, even if X'.
📄️ Using ないで
By adding ないで to the end of a verb, you can create the expression, 'I did X without doing Y'.