Chapter 6 - Auxiliaries That Follow Te Form Verbs

Question 1

-て + あげる, etc.

Answer 1

Helpfulness

Question 2

-て + いる

Answer 2

Progressive, resulting, habitual states

Question 3

ずっと

Answer 3

Continuously

Question 4

まだ

Answer 4

Yet

Question 5

-て + しまう

Answer 5

Completion

Question 6

-て + おく

Answer 6

Preparation

Question 7

-て + みる

Answer 7

Trial (try to do something)

Question 8

-て + いく

Answer 8

Progress (action starts prior to speech, continues after time of speech)

Question 9

-て + くる

Answer 9

Progress (action starts prior to speech, continues until time of speech)

Question 10

-て + ある

Answer 10

Resulting state (follows transitive verb, shows something that results from a past action.)

Question 11

-て + いる

Answer 11

Resulting state (follows an intransitive verb, shows something that results from a past action.)

Question 12

-て + ほしい

Answer 12

Desire

Question 13

美

Answer 13

BI; utsuku - Beautiful
Visual: Since big is Beautiful, the king filled up on rabbit stew until he was as big as a sumo wrestler.
Aural: The BEE saw Beautiful fruits cooling and collected some nectar.

Question 14

島

Answer 14

TŌ; shima - Island
Visual: Dinosaur Island (knockoff of Jurassic Park.)
Aural: She maps the Island by measuring with her TŌ.

Question 15

寸

Answer 15

SUN - Tiny
Visual: Tiny soccer player kicking a ball.
Aural: SOON, Tiny nanobots will destroy everything.

Question 16

寺

Answer 16

JI; tera - Temple (Buddhist)
Visual: Fierce tiny soccer players defend their turf like a Temple that must not be defiled.
Aural: JInies (genies) must be contained when in the Temple so they don’t tear apart the Temple.

Question 17

先

Answer 17

SEN; saki - Precede (can signify future/past, destination, or “the other party”)
Visual: Originally, The Nutcracker ballet has a jelly bean character that would Precede the sugar plum fairy, and would be pinned to the earth and devoured by her.
Aural: To show that you’re inSEN, Precede a court date carrying sack eels (eels in a sack).

Question 18

開

Answer 18

KAI; a, hira - Open (can mean “starting” or “developing” land)
Visual: Opening the castle gate by using a picnic table as a battering ram.
Aural: He rapidly Opened a KAIte to take advantage of the gust of wind.

Question 19

鳥

Answer 19

CHŌ; tori - Bird
Visual: Dinosaurs cooking Birds on gas stoves.
Aural: Bird CHŌking and throwing up in the lavatory.

Question 20

夕

Answer 20

yū - Evening
Less common: SEKI
Visual: Moon hidden behind clouds in the Evening.
Aural: Haoles playing yūkuleles on the beach in the Evening.

Question 21

外

Answer 21

GAI; soto - Outside (or “foreign” or “other”)
Less common: GE; hoka, hazu
Visual: Poor figure skaters forced to skate Outside in the Evening, when it gets crowded in the arenas.
Aural: GAI Fieri, working as an Outside consultant, gave Quiznos their “so toasty” slogan.

Question 22

舌

Answer 22

shita - Tongue
Less common: ZETSU
Visual: Thousand island dressing on the Tongue of a vampire (has no garlic in it.)
Aural: She taps on her Tongue to indicate that she’s hungry.

Question 23

図

Answer 23

ZU, TO - Diagram, planning
Less common: haka
Visual: Making a Diagram for a prison break with moldy jelly beans and a rotting banana peel.
Aural: Reading a Diagram of a ZU with kids in TO.

Question 24

立

Answer 24

RITSU; ta - Stand
Less common: RYŪ
Visual: Standing person’s torso/neck.
Aural: To be in good Standing at RITS U (Ritz U.), you must pay extra taxes.

Question 25

親

Answer 25

SHIN; oya - Parent (can indicate intimacy)
Less common: shita
Visual: Parents singing ditty: “Stand on a tree/ And what do you see?/ Your Parents! Your parents!”
Aural: She was coy about knowing my Parents, but SHI New them.

Question 26

星

Answer 26

SEI; hoshi - Star
Less common: SHŌ
Visual: The sun is the Star that gives us life.
Aural: Before navigating by the Stars, sailors always SEI, “tally ho she blows!”

Question 27

秋

Answer 27

SHŪ; aki - Autumn
Visual: In Autumn, crop stubble was burned to prep for next year.
Aural: In Autumn, aki doesn’t wear SHŪs (doesn’t want shoes to get wet in the rainy season.)

Question 28

西

Answer 28

SEI; nishi - West
Less common: SAI
Visual: Whiskey jug represents wild West.
Aural: In the wild West, ‘money sheep’ was a way of SEIing ‘someone who is bad at poker.’

Question 29

刀

Answer 29

TŌ; katana - Sword
Visual: Samurai holding a sword.
Aural: In addition to being called katanas, Swords are also called TŌe slicers.

Question 30

切

Answer 30

SETSU; ki - Cut (when suffix, indicates that something was finished completely)
Less common: SAI
Visual: Seven samurais w/swords on a film set, cutting each other when director yells, “Cut!”
Aural: On film SETS, U can’t kip going when the director says, “Cut!”

Question 31

曜

Answer 31

YŌ - Day of the Week
Visual: Every Day of the Week, the squirrels on the brick wall wait for the sun to come up so they can slick back their hair with their combs.
Aural: Squirrels going, “YŌ, what Day of the Week is it?”

Question 32

周

Answer 32

SHŪ - Around
Visual: A vampire and gorilla spinning Around and around and trampling the earth at a square dance.
Aural: Twirling a pair of SHŪs Around like nunchucks.