Resource for looking up particles for verbs,


I will give an example; 出る is a verb where its unclear what you use as the
particle depending on circumstance. if you are to say something like "Bill
appeared on stage." you would use the particle に to however if you say are
going to say "after that i left the theater" you would use the particle を to
mark the place you are departing from.

I realize alot of verbs its not all that complicated to determine as you can
simply determine the appropriate particle for the direct object and then
muddle your way through from their. However, in the example above normally you
would use a に or で particle to mark a location yet this verb uses を and に and
if anything the appear being に makes less sense of the two. For example
someone on stage behind the curtain standing still and then opening the
curtain, you would still use the particle に even though the person did not
actually move.

Their are quite a few exceptions to the norm like my example above probably
around 50 of them in total; but i don't have a good resource to look them up.
I mostly use jisho.org which does on occasion give example sentences so you
can try and glean what to do but i would love a resource i can type 出る into an
it would say に (appear) を (exit) etc for the majority of verbs.




I don't know any resource like that, but I can give you some basic rules. を
has three functions: direct object, place you go out from (like in your
example) and place you pass by (with verbs like 散歩する). If it's not any of
those we're talking about, you can forget を.

へ can only be used for direction, and if へ can be used, に is also valid. The
only difference is that に focuses more on the destination, rather than the
direction.

If an action takes place somewhere, that's marked with で. に only marks the
place of state verbs like いる, ある or 住む, but not of action verbs like pretty
much any other verb in the Japanese language.

In any other case, if your complement is a place you can usually use に. For
example, with 置く, _to put_ , the place where you put something is marked with
に. It doesn't have anything to do with the difference between action and state
verb, because it's not the place where you are that we're talking about. It's
the place where you leave something. So the action doesn't happen there, it's
more like the destination of the action.

Rules are pretty regular, and if you learn them you can always know what
particle to use in each case.

Edit: ok sorry honestly I was just thinking about place markers. Other verbs
are more complex. Some grammatical structures like the causative or the
potential have some explanations you have to read on a grammar book or website
because they have specific nuances. For common individual verbs when it's not
clear what particle is right, I usually just go to jisho.org or any other
dictionary and search example sentences. If I don't find anything, I ask in
HiNative, which usually gives you less detailed answers than this site but
much quicker and from natives, which is great if you just need to see a
sentence and understand what particle to use. Hope it helps.

