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〜んで・〜いで: te-form with で

N5 · 06 Plain forms and te-form

Godan verbs ending in ぬ・ぶ・む・ぐ use で, not て.

ぬ・ぶ・む→んで (読む→読んで); ぐ→いで (泳ぐ→泳いで). The past has the same voiced sound: 読んだ, 泳いだ (see 〜んだ・〜いだ). This で is not the particle で "at / by".

Examples

I drank tea and rested.

We swam and played in the river.

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