Sometimes verbs are used to describe one thing's action upon another thing, involving a subject, and an object. These verbs are known as transitive verbs. The opposite is intransitive verbs, which can ...

"Please open," said the dentist, and these words gave me something to think about during the uncomfortable moments of oral inspection that followed. Because what she actually said was 開いてください (Aite ...

This study investigated whether some Japanese intransitive verbs, called agent-implying intransitive verbs, are processed differently from other ordinary intransitive verbs. These verbs are special in ...

Recently, I stayed at an Airbnb in France that I learned had a bit of a dark wartime history. 幽霊を信じていませんが (Yūrei o shinjite-imasen ga, [I] don’t believe in ghosts but...) sometimes I get creeped out ...