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I have the following title:

> やり終えたことはチェックしておこう！

which I think is roughly saying there is a that in advance of finishing there
is a checklist (can anybody help with the literal translation?).

My question is regarding やり as a prefix. I assume this is やる - to do. And 終える
to finish or graduate. But to me やり seems superfluous.

What is the difference between these two?

> やり終えたことはチェックしておこう！
>
> 終えたことはチェックしておこう！
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やり as a prefix - clarification please
やる(≒する) → やり + ～おえる

やり is not a prefix, rather おえる is one of a great many productive verb
suffixes. Moreover, in this case using just 終える sounds a bit strange to me
(not native though).

Your final examples are the same as asking what the difference is between "be
sure to check off what you've finished" vs "finished doing".
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