掲示板 Forums - Some Doubts again..

1. Is that how can a kanji can have this much reading?! Even though it is not to be studied, but why was it studied?

2. What is the difference between the me and ma like 集める and 集まる. I also see verb forms ending in -れる, what does it differ from the normal ending ru?

3. When I do grammar questions in renshuu based on the ~kudasai, I see questions like :
-> 立ってください/立って下さい
-> この椅子にすわないでください/この椅子にすわないで下さい。
Why is there the necessity of using the kanji in some questions and not in some??

1) It's essentially the same reading though, isn't it? It's the root つ_ with is inflections and its 連濁 form. You're not really supposed to learn them all by heart, I'd say.

2) 希空(ノア) is right, the simple explanation is something like transitive/intransitive. If we read through the whole definition with all the details, we can see that 始まる means "for something to begin", while 始める means "for you to begin something". It's not always this straightforward, but it works as a rule of thumb.

As for -れる, 、-させる and so on, they're all verb inflections. You can find a lot of information and lessons/detailed explanations/convo threads on them by looking up any verb in the dictionary, tapping above the definition where it says, for example, (Godan verb - る (ます = stem+ります)/intransitive), and see the whole list - casual, invitational, volitional, causative etc.

3) Maybe more experienced learners can help us with this. What I've guessed so far is that it's a matter of the level of formality, sometimes the nuance, and... personal preference, maybe?

In theory, every Japanese word has its kanji, even する and いる, but some are so usual that people have stopped using it (I may be missing important information here, this is just my grasp of it as a beginner). On the other hand, I remember reading some Ｂｌｅａｃｈ manga and seeing Rukia (who acted very formally in the first arc) with speech bubbles that used kanji for almost every word.

I've also seen "us", for example, written as both 私たち and 私達 in sentence examples in Renshuu, or even on the same page of a book. I've been meaning to post on the forums and ask, but I kept hoping I'd figure it out on my own or understand it from googling...

no luck yet.

Then there's the separate situation of nouns that can be written with different kanji to express slightly different things, or verbs that are written with kanji when used in the literal sense (来る, 見る) and with hiragana when they have a non-literal or auxiliary meaning (落ちてくる, やってみる). But that's already something I know very little about.