- Basic forms
- 書く — to write / base form
- 書きます — polite / I write / masu form
- 書いた — past / wrote / ta form
- 書いて — te-form / write (and …) / linking or request
- 書かない — negative / don’t write / negative form
- 書けば — if I write / conditional
- 書け・書いてみろ — write! / try writing! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 書きたい — want to write / 〜たい form
- 書ける — can write / potential form
- 書けなかった — couldn’t write / negative past
- 書かれた — was written / passive
- 書かせる — make someone write / causative
- More
- 書こう — let’s write / 〜よう form
- 書いている — writing / progressive
- 書いてあった — had been written / state / result
書く (かく) is a godan (う-verb).
The final く changes to き / け / か depending on the form.
For example: 書きます, 書ける, 書かなかった — very regular pattern for く-ending verbs.
- 行く — to go
- 旅行 — travel
- 銀行 — bank
- 行動 — action / behavior
- 行事 — event / function
- 実行 — execution / carrying out
- 横行 — prevalence / going unchecked
- 逆行 — moving backward / retrogression
- 行う — to carry out / to hold
行 originally depicted a crossroads or path, representing movement and direction. Over time, it also came to mean "to do" or "to perform," making it one of the most flexible and commonly used characters.
あした京都に行きます。
I will go to Kyoto tomorrow.
会議は 午前10時から行われます。
The meeting will be held from 10 a.m.
