i’ve watched a lot of videos on youtube and i just founded one that talked about this, but i had a little difficulty to understand. i readed an article on imabi.net and i found even more confusing. something like verbs ended with -eru are transitive and then they turn to -i can’t remember what…
i know most people prefer to learn these pairs as separeted things, but i believe that it’s much easier to really understand if i know how they are formed and it gives me a little more security. if you guys have any resources — either being videos, articles or a pdf, as long as it’s free it’s good — it would be of much help
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Great question! I think that people often learn them individually because the rules are all over the place. That is one aspect of Japanese that I wish were regular instead of being so jumbled. Generally, I hate irregularity in languages. For example, you wrote “I readed an article” instead of “I read an article”. The word “readed” is fully comprehensible and regular, and in my opinion, it SHOULD be the past tense of “read”. I hate inconsistency and having to learn separate rules for each word…
With that said, I believe this webpage will be helpful to you, as it shows the different ways that the verbs can change.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Grammar/Transitivity
Also, for simple lists without the rules listed, you can check:
https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/jitadoushi.html
https://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/TransIntrans.asp
Good luck!