I have discovered that there are words other than 込む、付く、取る　there are actual many other words that are used to make Compound verbs. I came across ～直す and　～得る and a few more that can be used to give important meaning to verb by just attaching its masu stem to ～直す and　～得る.

All I wish to know from anyone on this forum is: Is it possible for me to get a list of such verbs that can be attached a masu stem of other verbs that I must know? I mean a list of essential verbs that are attached to masu stem of other verbs to give important meaning e.g ～直す and　～得る.. Is there a special name for such verbs that play this role?

e.g し直す means to "do again".

They are called Auxiliary Verbs in English, I don't know what the Japanese term is. I've seen lists of them somewhere but I don't have a link.

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:They are called Auxiliary Verbs in English, I don't know what the Japanese term is. I've seen lists of them somewhere but I don't have a link.

There's a really inappropriately giant list of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_verb

The Japanese wikipedia link concerning them is here:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8B%95%E...5.E8.A9.9E

Do note that compound verb also kind of refers to ~て form constructions using helping verbs like 始める and 見る. In Japanese there is a distinction between those that sort into 助動詞、補助動詞、and 複合動詞.

It seems like compound verbs appear a lot in definitions in Japanese dictionaries. It used to bother me because those verbs didn't have their own dictionary entries, and they kind of just looked made up.

By the way, I think the Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar -- and maybe Beginning Japanese Grammar, too, but I don't remember -- has an appendix with an enormous list of compound verbs.

hmm I see. The list really is quite long. Thanks.

These aren't auxiliary verbs in Japanese grammar, like the person below has noted. They're called 補助動詞, that is if they deviate from their independent original literal definitions--that's a lot of adjectives.
This is closer to "supplementary verbs".

Auxiliary verbs are things like た、たい、らしい等。

What you refer to are 複合動詞. And, the number of these combinations is humongous. So, I would have to agree that you would need a dictionary to study them independently and in great depth. I cover quite a few of them where I teach, and you can definitely find a compound verb in just about any text. You can normally figure them out just by viewing the two verbs separately.