て-form: て, って or んで

The て-form joins actions ("do A and then B") and is the base of many patterns, such as てください (please do). How you build it depends on the verb:

• る-verbs (ichidan, mostly ending in -iru or -eru): drop る and add て: 食べる → 食べて, 起きる → 起きて, 見る → 見て.
• Other verbs ending in う, つ, る: change the ending to って: 会う → 会って, 待つ → 待って, 乗る → 乗って.
• Verbs ending in む, ぶ, ぬ: change the ending to んで: 読む → 読んで, 遊ぶ → 遊んで, 死ぬ → 死んで.

Watch out: a few verbs end in -iru or -eru but still take って: 帰る → 帰って and 入る → 入って (never 帰て). The dictionary form is given in parentheses after each sentence; type only the missing ending.