Hi!
In the examples for 立つ it’s often written as 立って, but there is no explanation why. Can someone point me to a grammar rule for that?
Can you show some of the examples?
It probably depends on how it’s being used in the sentence 
Te form has many functions including forming part of the present progressive, functioning as “and,” functioning as a command, etc.
When tatsu is conjugated into te form it becomes tatte.
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E.g.
ヨガの先生：「真っ直ぐ立ってください。」
Yoga teacher: ‘Please stand up straight.’
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Te form has many functions including forming part of the present progressive, functioning as “and,” functioning as a command, etc.
Ah, te form is probably what I’m looking for. Looks like it’ll be covered a bit later
Thank you!
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Ah yes! Te form + kudasai = please do
Good luck with your learning!
By the way you probably got a lot more more those jumpscares. I can recommend asking some sort of AI about grammar points used there until you reach point where you don’t need it. They are really good at that now.
Some people are worried about hallucinations, but if it says something wrong you’ll learn that it’s wrong basically in any case when you go forward. As well as you can just ask it to point you a specific articles about point you are looking for. Myself, I’ve never seen it hallucinating about regular stuff. Songs lyrics and etymology - every time; Sentence with regular structural - non. (using gemini 2.5 pro)
Much better then hitting head against the wall every time something comes up when you want to understand it.
Disclaimers of over-reliance like with translator might be requested by folks, but if you getting into what a sentence actually means and trying to learn construction from it, it’s just a tool that will just help.
Someone might say it can injure the tolerance of ambiguity, but in my opinion if one has listening and some extensive reading, it shouldn’t be the problem at all.
The bonus that people quite often won’t talk is that this way you are going from your curiosity rather then following a typical structure, which makes it more interesting and you learn from need and not just what comes one by one the same way every time.
Oh ye, I think I just had a need to write something.
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That’s good advice!
I am usually quite skeptical about LLMs, but figuring out which grammar rules apply in certain scenarios seems like a good use case for them. I asked ChatGPT about 立つ vs 立って, and it was able to identify that I’m interested in て-forms and give me links to corresponding articles on Tofugu, Bunpro, and Tae Kim’s guide
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