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Makoto wa ii-dashitara zenzen hito no hanashi o kikanai.
Makoto does not listen to anyone once he starts
saying something.

Tabe-suginai yō ni shinakute wa ikemasen.
You must try not to overeat.

Shinagawa de nori-kaete kudasai.
Please change trains at Shinagawa.

Kangae-naoshite, hataraki-hajimemashita.
I reconsidered, and started working.

Manga o yomi-sugimashita.
I read comic books too much.

Finally, the verb infinitive is the source of many derived

nouns:

yasumi ‘vacation’ from yasumu (rests)

hanashi ‘story’ from hanasu (speaks) hajime
‘beginning’ from hajimeru (begins) oyogi

‘swimming’ from oyogu (swims) tōri ‘street’
from tōru (passes)

There are a few nouns derived from adjective infinitives

like chikaku ‘vicinity’ from chikaku ‘being near,’ as in Ginkō wa
chikaku ni arimasen ‘There is no bank in the vicinity.’