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1. What does the きて mean here? Does it mean come? Context: Speaker tells Fina to help a third party. そういうわけだからフィナ、彼女たちの解体を手伝ってきてあげて。早く出発したいから

2. I am on chapter 21 of Genki. Part of the chapter involes -てある to describe the state of something caused by someone. A lot of the questions in the book involve transitivity pairs we learned in chapter 18 like 開ける vs 開く. The examples all use the transitive verb like まどが開けてあります vs まどが開いてあります… is it ok to use intransitive here or only transitivie since the implication is [someone] did the action to it to make it the current state?

3. when im learning genki vocab, should i learn the kanji version of it?

4. I’m custom engraving a gift to family friends. They don’t speak Japanese but I’d hate to engrave something incorrectly.

   English: “My heartfelt thanks to the Salzman family, from Henry”

   Japanese: サルツマンご一家に心より感謝申し上げます。ヘンリーより

   Is there anything a native speaker would change here? I’d like to keep it reasonably polite/formal but I’ve known them many years.