In the last lesson I had in my Japanese course, we learned about transitive
verbs & intransitive verbs.

In the Genki II book, there's no explanation as to how a verb is transformed
from transitive to intransitive or vice versa.

I searched online and on YouTube for possible explanation as to how we
conjugate between the pair and I found no such thing.

Some patterns I can find:

  * A lot of intransitive verbs always covert from a godan verb to an ichidan verb.
  * And the letter before the る is set to the ~e letters.
  * Ichidan verbs usually remove the る and covert to a godan verb for the intransitive counterpart (but not always, e.g. 閉める→閉まる, the る stays but the verb still converted to a godan verb)

So I was wondering if there was a rule of thumb for converting between the two
pairs?
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verbs conjugations transitivity
Is there a way to conjucate transitive verbs to intransitive verbs ? or a pattern to use?