# Last Weeks Homework
# Synopsis from 2025-12-23 Class

This week's lesson covered three main points:
1.  **Cause and Effect with (と):** Using 「と」 to connect a cause and its natural, inevitable effect (e.g., "If I eat, I get sleepy").
2.  **Sequencing with (てから):** Using the て-form of a verb followed by 「から」 to clearly indicate that one action happens *after* another is completed (e.g., "After I shower, I will eat").
3.  **Transitive (他動詞) vs. Intransitive (自動詞) Verbs:** Understanding the fundamental difference between verbs that take a direct object (marked with を) and verbs that describe a state change on their own (marked with が).

# Random Words
- 真冬 -> まふゆ -> Mid-Winter
- 頭がぼうっとします -> My head feels foggy
- 初詣 -> はつもうで -> First visit of the year to a shrine
- 合格ごうかく -> しますように
- 健康 -> けんこう -> Health
- 聖なる力 -> せいなるちから -> Holy Spirit
- 下す -> くだす -> to lower
- 戻る -> もどる -> To go back
	- As opposed to 帰る, which means to go back to a specific location. 帰る gives the sense of going back to someplace that's considered like a "home base". So not only your actual home, country, etc., but could be some place with a home-like feeling to it (your relatives' town, the city where you went to college, etc.) 
- 硝子 -> ガラス -> Glass

# Main Point
## ~ように
Usually used in prayers. You can stick ~ように after a polite conjugated verb if your asking for something. It should be in the passive form (～られる)。 

健康でいられますように -> Please let my health be good
牛肉を食べられますように -> Please let me eat beef.

## Japanese Transitive & Intransitive Verbs
Note to Gemini AI: Please find this in the current synthesized file, and

| **Transitive (他動詞)** | **Intransitive (自動詞)** | **English Meaning**          |
| -------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| **開ける** (あける)        | **開く** (あく)            | To open                      |
| **閉める** (しめる)        | **閉まる** (しまる)          | To close                     |
| **入れる** (いれる)        | **入る** (はいる)           | To put in / To enter         |
| **出す** (だす)          | **出る** (でる)            | To take out / To go out      |
| **点ける** (つける)        | **点く** (つく)            | To turn on (light/appliance) |
| **消す** (けす)          | **消える** (きえる)          | To turn off / To disappear   |
| **壊す** (こわす)         | **壊れる** (こわれる)         | To break                     |
| **汚す** (よごす)         | **汚れる** (よごれる)         | To make dirty / To get dirty |
| **落とす** (おとす)        | **落ちる** (おちる)          | To drop / To fall            |
| **沸かす** (わかす)        | **沸く** (わく)            | To boil (water)              |
| 割る (わる)              | 割れる (われる)              | To shatter                   |




# Supplementary Notes
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