文法: Grammar a Day - Level 3 [ て形くる (tekuru) ]

て形くる (tekuru) - Vte go, do something, and return


--- Examples ---
新聞を買ってくる。
I'll go buy the newspaper. (implying you'll be back)

医者に行って薬をもらってきました。
I went to the doctor and got some medicine (and came back with it) .

日本語が少しずつ分かってきた
Little by little, I  came to  understand Japanese.

物価が下がってくる。
Prices continue to fall.

--- Comments ---
contrast with verb-te+iku
 買って行く
 I'll go and buy (on the way to somewhere else) (contributor: dc)

maybe this grammar entry should be more ーてくる as it is about
appending -kuru to compound a verb.
買ってくる、持ってくる 等 (contributor: dc)

Maybe we could transfer that example into -nagara (contributor: bi-ru)

its done, on page (contributor: dc)

As I found on (Takasugi Shinji's site) - contrast the difference of -tekuru
and -teiku in the following:

物価が下がっていく。
物価が下がってくる。

Both mean that prices continue to fall. Both tekuru and teiku indicate
continuation in this example. However teiku implies motion away from,
whereas tekuru implies motion towards.

You think prices are going away from you in sentence 1, such as when you
don't like the trend. You think prices are approaching you in sentence 2,
such as when you like it. (contributor: bi-ru)

wow! わかった。I get it. Thanks (contributor: anna.kendall)

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