Japanese/Old Japanese/Active-Passive alignment.md
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| original verb | intransitive form | transitive form | meaning |
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| ------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | ------- |
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-| hajimu | hajimaru | hajimeru | to start |
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-| nigu | nigeru | nigasu | |
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+| hajim.u | hajim.aru | hajim.eru | to start |
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+| nig.u | nig.eru | nig.asu | |
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Having this duality might seem a bit odd, given that old-japanese had only one form for these verbs. Given old japanese tended to omit case-marking particles, it might seem odd not to know if the noun is being the subject or the object of an action
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