ずっと側にいてくれてありがとう The pattern is て+くれて+ありがとう. Formally, you can say て+下さって+ありがとうございます. In this example, て simply joins the verbs いる and くれる to ありがとう, the order of which is fixed. To make sense of this order, think of the fixed expression て+くれる, "to do something as a favor." ずっと側にいてくれました。 You we...

I am quite new to learning Japanese. Ideas are welcomed. How do Japanese speakers pronounce Chinese characters? Do they need to remember all the pronunciations of a single Chinese character? And then what? Try to match to figure out the actual meaning? In a Japanese verb/adj, what do Chinese ch...

The constuction て + いる has multiple meanings depending on the context. For the sake of simplicity, we can boil it down to three meanings: Progressive state Habitual state Resulting state. To exemplify, consider the sentence マイさんは飲んでいます. This has three possible meanings: Mai-san is drinking (pr...