Japanese verbs “ukeru” (受ける) and “ukaru” (受かる): a useful pair

Japanese verbs often conveniently come in transitive/intransitive pairs, but sometimes those verbs don’t have the meanings you would expect. In this post I’d like to talk about “ukeru”(受ける) and “ukaru”(受かる), two verbs that are pretty important in daily life. The first of these, “ukeru” is the transitive one, which means it takes an object using… Read More »