Genki I Chapter 7: ている-Form and て-Form of Adjectives

Japanese verbs can be classified into three types:

- Verbs that describe activities that last for some time, like 食べる
- Verbs that describe a change that is more or less instant, like 死ぬ
- Verbs that describe continuous states, like ある

You can use いる with the first type of verb to say that the action is currently in progress. You can also use it to say what someone does for work or by habit.

Because いる is a る-verb, you can also conjugate it to change the tense. For instance, 読んでいる means that you're currently reading while 読んでいた means that you were reading.

When using ~ている with the second type of verbs, the ている form describes the state that results from the change. The sentence reflects the current situation, which is the result of the action that took place.

So for instance, 虫が死んでいる would mean that a bug IS dead, not that it's currently dying.

While technically it's correct to say Aさんの (body part) は (adjective), it's more natural to say it using は and then が.

Drop い, add くて

Instead of using な, use で

Drop す

You can use the て-form to join sentences together, like saying something or someone is, "this and that."

This is how you say that someone has moved to another place in order to do something.

The purpose of movement is a verb stem, which is the ます form without the ます.

You can add 人 to a number to count a specific number of people. 一人 and 二人 are irregular.

Well, then, so.

You're doing something because of something else.