I swear there was a certain verb clause for the actions of someone else.

Eg how do I say "He thought it was good?"

Sorry for noobishness :3
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Verb clause for someone else?
For action verbs like in your examples I'm not aware of any need to change the
verb form to match the pronoun:

> (私は)笑っている and (彼女は)笑っている

both use the same verb conjugation.

Are you perhaps thinking about expressing the thoughts and feelings of others?
You cannot directly state what someone else is feeling because it is assumed
that this is something you cannot know. So you can say:

> (私は)犬がほしい

but not

> *(彼女は)犬が欲しい

In the latter case you would need to add

> がる = "show signs of"

to the verb, (for some reason I don't understand) change が to を e.g.

> 彼女は犬を欲しがっている
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Extra information for those interested in dialects:

While Standard Japanese doesn't differentiate grammatically between first-
person and third-person actions, some dialects do:

**Saga Dialect**

> 俺は走りよる (I am running [right now])
>
> 先生は走りよんさっ

The second of which is a contraction of 走りよんさる, which is a further contraction
of 走りより **なさる** , the なさる of which we recognize from very polite speech.

**Nagasaki Dialect**

> 俺は走りよる
>
> 先生は走りよらす

We see よる become よらす, which is more of a new conjugation that doesn't
correspond to something from older court speech (i.e. the なさる from Saga
Dialect).

Interesting note, these forms are usually used to refer to people above you in
the social hierarchy. You'd never say your dog is 走りよらす.
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