So I’m curious as to how new verbs are created. But I’ve noticed that most of the more recent verbs are simply \[noun\] + \[suru\].
Is the collection of ru/u-verbs pretty much fixed at this point? If not, then how do people come up with a new ru/u-verb?
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Sometimes they take an English word and add る, or the word already ends in る so they just conjugate it like a verb. Like パニクる or トラブる and of course ググる
Yeah I read somewhere awhile back that Japanese verbs are a closed class. Basically all new verbs are suru verbs.
Because the entire reason ‘suru verbs’ exist in the first place is because Japanese needed a convenient way for foreign (primarily Chinese) words to function as verbs in Japanese syntax. Most of the new verbs being added to the language these days are either imported from other languages or are modeled after words of a Chinese origin so they use this same handy process.
Godan and ichidan verbs on the other hand are generally native in origin, and as with any language it takes a lot longer for new words to form naturally than it does to just snatch already formed words from elsewhere.