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How do you handle learning new verbs that have both transitive and
intransitive forms? Is it best to immediately memorize both forms?
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When learning new verbs, is it best to memorize both the transitive and intransitive versions up front?
There are rules to transform each others most of the time, you don't have to
memorize both.

Here is a list about 1200 verbs and derivation to transitive and intransitive
forms.

  * <http://homepage3.nifty.com/jgrammar/ja/data/trans.htm>
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Instead of memorizing the words and which form they are, you should memorize a
sentence or two using each form. This way of memorizing is especially useful
for transitive and intransitive verbs.
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I would say "yes", it is probably better to learn the pairs (sometimes
triplets) at the same time. That way you can know the context of when to use
which one. If you only learn the 他〜 or 自〜, you may use it incorrectly when you
should have used the other one.
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