Japanese/Ways to split verbs.md
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# 自動詞 vs 他動詞
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### 他自動詞
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+**他自動詞** are a special subtype of japanese verbs which can be used in both ways without changing its form. They are mostly suru-verbs, as they come from chinese, which historically didn't distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs. There's also a small subset of native japanese verbs which belong to the hybrid transitivity class:
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+- **owaru** - shiken ga owatta, sensei ga shiken wo owatta
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## How to identify
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- **〜aる**, **〜oる** is always intransitive
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- **始まる** (はじ.まる) - to begin