Learn Japanese now! Now that you know the basic differences between the three Japanese verbs for giving and receiving, it’s time to focus on each of them independently. This guarantees that you will master its use. This Low Intermediate Japanese article is about the verb kureru. We use it when the receiver is the speaker or someone very close to him or her. For example, you could say, “George lent me the book” in Japanese using kureru. There are numerous examples in this Japanese article to ensure that you are a pro at using this versatile Japanese verb.

Vocabulary: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:

deru – “go out, answer” (the phone, the doorbell)
nikibi – “grain, stain”
dekiru – “appear, occur”
agaru – “enter, enter”
Kurai – “approximately, about”
I or – “business, something to do”

Grammar: In this article, you will learn the following words and phrases:

In the previous article, we learned about give and take verbs like kureru, agedand moral. In the next three articles, we will see these verbs acting as auxiliary verbs respectively. This article focuses on kureru.

Kureru means “to give” and we use it when the receiver is the speaker or someone in the speaker’s group. when we use kureru after the –you form of another verb, acts as an auxiliary, which implies that the doer performed that action for the sake of the speaker. We mark the author of the action with any of the particles Wow gold Georgiawhile marking the receptor with any of the particles neither, either, gold to depending on the verb you use. Note that the recipient is either the speaker or someone in the speaker’s group, so we usually omit the recipient in an award.

Today’s Example 1 shows that Koji (speaking) asks Keisuke to eat chocolate for him because he doesn’t want to. Today’s Example 2 emphasizes the fact that Natsuko made the chocolate for him (speaker), probably because she loves him.

1. Example 1 from today:

Chotto tabete kureru? “Could you eat some for me?”

2. Today’s example 2:

Kanojo wa Kyonen mo choko tsukutte kureta n da yo ne. He also made me chocolate last year.

Training:

[(Doer) wa (ga)] [(receiver) ni (o, to)] Verb-you + kureru

Examples:

1. Otoo-san, (watashi ni) atarashii geemu katte kureru?

Dad, can you buy a new video game (for me)?

2. Jooji ga (watashi ni) sono hon o kashite kureta.

George lent the book (to me).

3. Ashita (watashi no tame ni) paatii ni kite kuremasu ka?

Could you come to the party (as a favor to me) tomorrow?