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Japanese Compound Verbs & Aspect
Attach a second verb to a ます stem and you get a new one: 読み切る is to read all the way through, 読みかけ is to have started and stopped. These suffixes and the aspect patterns beside them describe how far an action got, and they are how Japanese says finished, half-done and nearly.
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切る・切れない | Do Completely and Can't Finish in Japanese
Do completely; finish entirely; can't finish
込む・合う・直す | Compound Verb Suffixes in Japanese
Into; mutually; again — verb-stem suffixes
かける | Half-Done and About To in Japanese
Half-done; partway; on the verge of
一方だ | Keeps Getting More in Japanese
Keeps ~ing; continues to; more and more
そうになる | Almost Happened in Japanese
Almost; nearly; was about to
て済む | Getting Away With in Japanese
It's enough to; you can get away with; it ends with just
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