Transitive and intransitive pairs

[Exidez]

someone was telling me an easy way to rememebr the differant, howevea due to my blondeness i forgot within secondons. No matter how many times i was told


anyway it had sumthing to do with kanji "jidou（自動）" and how it means automatic... and tadoushi（他動詞） which means transitive verb is automatic and doesnt need the ga or sumthing like that.... (becauce of the same kanji 動）

as i said i dont remember...
Was anyone else taught this way? And if you would you like to share it?
I always get this wrong

 

[beluga]

This is one area of Japanese study that I hate most. It's such a hassle to remember both of the forms.

tadoushi usually is used with wo and jidoushi with ga. You can sometimes easily see that this is a jidoushi or tadoushi by looking at the word. tadoushi tend to end with eru and jidoushi with aru. Of course, there's quite a number of exceptions like dasu (out) which is tadoushi and deru which is jidoushi. Another way to recognise a jidoushi and tadoushi is whether it's used with arimasu or imasu.

hana ha narabete arimasu (tadoushi)

hana ha narande imasu (jidoushi)

I'm still not good in this area. Moshi machigattara, naoshite kudasai.

 

[Elizabeth]

Here's a more comprehensive thread on it only a few months old now. Doesn't anyone use the search function anymore ?

About the passive tense | Japan Forum

 

[Buntaro]

I remember that "tadoushi" and "transitive" both start with a "T". It works for me!