文法の説明

N4 レッスン 7: 2/18

~てくれるTo do something for someone (usually you)

Receiver's point of view

使い方・接続

Verb[て]+ くれる
Verb[ないで]+ くれる

Politeness Levels

詳細

  • 使用域

    敬語

  • あまり見かけない漢字

    呉れる

「てくれる」の情報

The verb ()れる in Japanese, is very similar to (あた)える (to bestow). The primary difference is that ()れる (primarily written in hiragana) means to 'bestow to the speaker' (or someone in the speakers inner circle).

In this way, てくれる is the opposite of てあげる, which conveys that someone (usually the speaker) gives (an action) to another person that is outside of their inner circle. てくれる is commonly translated as 'would you do (A) for me', as a question, or 'someone did (A) for me', as a statement.

When asking for a favor, てくれる can be shortened to てくれ. However, this is very casual, and should not be used with strangers (or anyone that you do not know well). As an English equivalent, てくれ sounds similar to phrases like 'would ya do (A)', or 'could ya do (A)?'

Fun Fact

てくれる is one of the most casual ways to ask for a favor, with てもらう being slightly more polite. ていただく (the humble speech variation of てくれる) is even more polite than either of these!

反意語


例文

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    あのグラスここ()ってきてくれる

    Would you bring me that glass?

    この漢字(かんじ)意味(いみ)(おし)えてくれますか

    Would you teach me the meaning of this kanji? (for me)

    (わたし)(あい)してくれますか

    Will you love me? (do me the favor of)

    ママ()やすいペンかってくれた

    My mom bought a pen that is easy to write with. (For me)

    (しゃべ)ないで(だま)って()ってくれますか

    Could you not talk, shut up and go? (for me)

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      • Jake

        Jake

        Do something for someone (usually you)

        Structure

        • Verb[] + くれる

        View on Bunpro

      • seanblue

        seanblue

        Why is there blue? I’ve never seen that before.

      • deltacat3

        deltacat3

        Its a link directed to a grammar point that has appeared before it’s lesson.
        To help avoid confusion if you are following the Bunpro lessons order.

        I believe its only a temporary fix, until new sentences are created or changed,
        to only include grammar that has been introduced. ^_^!

      • seanblue

        seanblue

        That’s… bizarre. Especially since I already know that grammar point.

      • deltacat3

        deltacat3

        Ikr, it showed up for me before and after I got to that lesson. I guess it doesn’t
        do a check to see if the user has completed said lesson and hide itself.

      • Aythreuk

        Aythreuk

      • Pushindawood

        Pushindawood

        @Aythreuk Hey! Thank you for letting us know about this! I have updated the sentence to use the correct verb in the hint. We will get new audio recorded for this sentence soon. Cheers!

      • CrisH

        CrisH

        I have a couple of questions about the example sentences here…hopefully they’re not stupid ones!
        In スーパーに行ったら、牛乳を買ってきてくれる? I can’t tell what きて is doing. Does it turn “buy some milk for me” into a sort of “buy-bring some some milk to me” hybrid?
        And in サンタさん、何を持って来てくれたの? I’m not certain why the の is necessary. Is it because the sentence is grammatically something like “Santa-brought-me-thing (サンタさん…持って来てくれたの) is what (何を)” so without the の it would be something like “Santa brought me is what”?

      • Pushindawood

        Pushindawood

        @CrisH

        There’s no such thing!

        Let’s focus on 来る for your first question. くる always describes something that is coming towards the speaker or who the speaker is talking about. Therefore, words like 買ってくる (buy and come) and 持ってくる (hold and come) describe things that are being bought and brought and things that are being held and brought respectively towards the speaker. Changing くる to the polite command form, “きて,” makes 牛乳を買ってきて mean “(go and) buy milk and come (back).” Add くれる to make it a request and you have 牛乳を買ってきてくれる, “would you (go and) buy milk and come (back for me)?”

        の is just abbreviated のです. It makes the question more inquisitive as the speaker is expecting that the listener will provide an explanation or more details about what is be...

      • CrisH

        CrisH

        Thanks for that - very helpful
        So, say if you were at work and called your partner to ask them to get milk for the household, presumably you wouldn’t use that then? But you might if you were at home and called them? Could you say 牛乳を買って帰ってくれるか。 Do you need a question marker for these requests? Although that does sound like an odd thing to specify, I’ll admit!

      • Pushindawood

        Pushindawood

        @CrisH

        That’s right! Since your partner is not coming towards you, but towards home.

        This is OK. However, it is better to omit か or use the polite ますか at the end. Using か with the plain form (dictionary form) of the verb can sound a bit rude. Since you are talking with your partner (significant other), this would be acceptable, but still sound a bit rough/masculine. Cheers!

      • CrisH

        CrisH

        Cool, thanks. I keep meaning to try and default to the polite forms!

      • Ambo100

        Ambo100

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        DBJG listed twice. ...

      • mrnoone

        mrnoone

        Hey

        The double has been removed, and resources has been listed alphabetically!

        Cheers!

      • Ambo100

        Ambo100

        I noticed there is also a third resource with no link (just a checkbox)

      • wjomlex

        wjomlex

        I’m a bit confused by

        サンタさん、何なにを もってきてくれた の?[持もってくる]

        It says “receiver’s point of view”, but it’s not the receiver who’s asking this, right? Otherwise I’d expect the sentence to be “What did Santa bring for me?”

      • larrydeluca

        larrydeluca

        Can someone clarify the difference between もらうand くれる? As I understand it both are from the view of the receiver, both are within your UCHI group, and もらう carries an additional inflection of pleasure or gratitude.

        BunPro has no readings or grammar points liked to てくれる。 Obviously I’m going to hit Tae Kim again, but the online resources I find all cover
        different aspects of the elephant without describing the elephant itself, as it were.

        ありがとう!

      • matt_in_mito

        matt_in_mito

        Simply, もらう means ‘to receive’ and くれる means ‘to give’.
        田中さんは本をもらった - Mr. Tanaka received a book.
        田中さんは本をくれた - Mr. Tanaka gave a book (to me or to my uchi)
        I shared a video a long time ago that makes this grammar point super easy to understand. Have a look here.

      • Eloeri

        Eloeri

      • matt_in_mito

        matt_in_mito

        The sentence ending particle か works like a question mark. So generally you wouldn’t have a か and a question mark in the same sentence, you would simply have a 。.
        公園に行きますか。
        公園に行く?
        So the presence of a question mark in the example sentence indicates whether you should have か.

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