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Name: Anon 2008-03-22 1:37

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Name: Anonymous 2008-09-13 3:50

I'm confused when to use intransitive and transitive verbs when it seems like it could be one or the other.

Here's an example, if you hear a door shut, but you don't know if humans did it or it was just the wind which would you use? I asked my teacher and she said 自動詞(intransitive) so that's out of the way

but what about other things like why is 振り仮名がついている and not 振り仮名をつけている? People had to do that, or maybe it's because people did it but then machines printed it (hmm, are machines transitive or intransitive)
Another example might be like you're driving a truck and you turn and a box falls out of the truck, which do you use for to fall? The turn caused it which was caused by the person, but then again something is just telling me it's intransitive. There's a hell of a lot better examples I thought of but can't recall..

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