【Difference】てform + くれる、あげる、もらう

Difference
Difference
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てform + くれる

アシスタント
アシスタント

くれる means ‘to give (something to ME)’ on its own.

てform + くれる is used when somebody kindly does something for me, not for anybody else.

Example

父は私にケーキを買ってくれました

My father kindly bought me a cake.

Then, how do you say ‘My father bought my older brother a cake’?

せんせい
せんせい

てform + くれる is used only when the action is done for ‘me’.

Use てform + あげる if the action is done for somebody other than ‘me’.

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てform + あげる

できる子
できる子

あげる means ‘to give (something to somebody other than me)’ on its own.

てform + あげる is used when somebody (including I) kindly does something for somebody else or something else other than ‘me’.

Example

父は兄にケーキを買ってあげました

My father kindly bought my older brother a cake.

Example

私は父にケーキを買ってあげました

I kindly bought my father a cake.

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てform + もらう

がんばる子
がんばる子

もらう means ‘to receive’ on its own.

てform + もらう is used when somebody (including I) receives something done by somebody else who does the action kindly.

What to receive doesn’t have to be a thing, it can be an action.

Example

父は兄にケーキを買ってもらいました

My father got my older brother to buy a cake. (My father appreciates what my old brother did.)

Example

私は父にケーキを買ってもらいました

I got my father to buy a cake. (I appreciate what he did)

アシスタント
アシスタント

The English grammar ‘get somebody to do’ is not used to show appreciation but that could be the closest translation.

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Summary

父は私にケーキを買ってくれました。(My father kindly bought me a cake.)
父は兄にケーキを買ってあげました。(My father kindly bought my older brother a cake.)
私は父にケーキを買ってあげました。(I bought kindly my father a cake.)

  • 父は兄にケーキを買ってもらいました。(My father got my older brother to buy a cake.)
  • 私は父にケーキを買ってもらいました。(I got my father to buy a cake.)
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Exercise

Task: Change into English.

  • 友だちがはしの使い方を教えてくれました
  • 父が駅までむかえに来てくれました
  • ホストファミリーがおいしいレストランにつれて行ってくれました
  • 手つだってくれてありがとうございます。
  • 友だちにはしの使い方を教えてもらいました
  • Friends kindly taught me how to use chopsticks.
  • My father kindly came to station to pick me up.
  • My host family kindly took to a good restaurant.
  • Thank you very much for helping me.
  • I got friends to teach how to use chopsticks. (They did it kindly.)
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