1. Learn Japanese - Giving and Receiving in Japanese With Morau
Learn Japanese rapidly! You have attained the last lesson on Japanese
giving and getting verbs. This time, you'll learn the right way to say
things like, "A buddy of mine repaired my car" using the Japanese verb
morau. Within this Lower Intermediate Japanese lesson, discover how
to use morau once the speaker receives something from another person.
You will also discover a quick evaluation of the other Japanese giving
and receiving verbs also as instance sentences to get you started.
Congratulations! You're now ready to speak about providing and getting
in Japanese!
Vocabulary: In this article, you will understand the subsequent words
and phrases:
okaeshi - "return gift"
watasu - "to pass more than, to hand over" (course 1 verb)
moshikashite - "perhaps, possibly"
wakeru - "to share, to divide"
giri choko - "chocolate given out of duty"
hidoi - "horrible, terrible"
todokeru - "to provide, to take, to bring"
Grammar: In this article, you'll learn the following words and
phrases:
The focus of today's lesson is Morau, a class-one verb we use to
express that the speaker, or somebody whom the speaker thinks he/
she is psychologically near to (in-group), receives some thing from
someone. When morau follows the -te type of another verb, it acts as
an auxiliary meaning "someone is performing something for [me or a
person in group]." The doer is marked from the particle ni, and also
the beneficiary is marked by wa, but it's usually omitted because the
beneficiary is usually the speaker.
Example 1a) expresses that Natsuko's father received her (beneficiary)
a bag, in other words, she obtained his favor. The doer is marked
from the particle ni. If you concentrate around the doer with the
sentence rather than the beneficiary when you wish to explain the same
occasion, you can use the auxiliary verb kureru rather than morau. In
that case, the doer is marked by the particle ga. See today's instance
1b.
Example 2a) expresses that Keisuke (speaker/beneficiary) needed to
share a chocolate with Koji (doer), and Koji kindly shared it with
Keisuke. Present day instance 2b doesn't overtly possess a beneficiary
or doer. So, you are able to simply change the verb morau and kureru
to describe exactly the same occasion.
Instance one:
a) O-too-san ni katte moratta no.
"My father purchased it for me."
b) O-too-san ga katte kureta no.
"My father bought it for me."
Instance two:
a) Chotto dake wakete moratta n da yo.
"He shared it with me."
b) Chotto dake wakete kureta n da yo.
"He shared it with me."

2. Formation
([beneficiary] wa) [Doer] ni verb.te-form morau
Examples:
Sensei ni nihongo o oshiete morau. "My teacher teaches me Japanese."
Yuujin ni kuruma o naoshite moratta. "A buddy of mine repaired my
car."
Umi de raifuseebaa ni tasukete moratta. "I was rescued by a lifeguard
at the sea."
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