The use of 上げる as a compound verb

[Isaboo]

みなさん、こんばんは！よろしくお願いします。

I came across the compound verb of: 書き上げた (To finish writing) and tried to put together how it was formed and how to conjugate this with other verbs. However, upon looking into it, I noticed that there seem to be two uses to this: V1 and V2 verbs, the former being a use for "___ up/raise" and the latter being "finish ____" (with the blanks being the corresponding verbs).


Is there anyone who can better explain this to me? If there is a lesson on it, forgive me! I must be blind.　助けて下さい！

[mieth]

you are correct in your usages. There are three but the last one is not really important and deals with politeness in the context of when something is involved with a person. So you have usage one which is a motion of something going up and usage two which means means to finish something. This is a compound verb which means it needs the root of another verb. I think you are getting a little confused with V1 and V2. It can be used with both but the key is that it needs to be transitive. Kaku is a transitive verb thus it works. If you don't know what transitive is: it's when by someone's action something moves. So when you use the verb for someone closing a door it would be transitive. When a door closes on its own because of the wind or something it would be intransitive. Hope this helps.

[j_bertoni2279]

読み上げる means "to read aloud", maybe that's a different usage.