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ADDITIONAL VOCABULARY

wasureru 忘れる forget

oboeru 覚える remember; commit to
memory
honyaku 翻訳 translation

honyaku-suru; 翻訳する; 訳す translate
yakusu

tsūyaku 通訳 interpretation; interpreter
tsūyaku-suru 通訳する interpret

GRAMMAR NOTE Making a Verb a Potential Form = “Can Do”

The verb suru “do” has a special potential form dekiru “can do”. For all the
other verbs, there are conjugation rules for Potential forms for each verb group.

U-Verbs: Change u to eru
The resulting form is a RU-verb. To make the negative form, change ru to nai.

nomu → nomeru → nomenai
drink can cannot drink
drink

kau → kaeru → kaenai
buy can buy cannot buy

RU-Verbs: Change ru to rareru (or reru for the newly emerging version)
taberu → taberareru → taberarenai (taberenai)
(tabereru)

eat can eat cannot eat

Irregular Verbs (Note: There is no potential form for aru “to be”)
kuru → korareru → korarenai (korenai)

(koreru)
come can cannot come
come

suru → dekiru → dekinai
do can do cannot do