Does the ''te form'' literally mean something on its own?


All other forms of verbs inherently seem to have some kind of meaning but te
needs to be combined with things before it means anything. Does it mean
anything on its own that makes what it ends up doing with other things make
logical sense? Like, why do te kudasai and te iru/aru both use te?




"te" by itself have no meaning. There is canonical word of verbs and if You
add te in correct way it changes verb meaning. kaku - to write (canonical)
kaite - write (in "You write", used with friends, family, coworkers,...) kaite
kudasai - please write (more official form, used with people You don't know
well)

