N4 grammar

〜ていく

teiku

Going on from here

Formation

ていく is the mirror of てくる: away from you, or forward from now into the future. Prices will go on rising, he walked off. Which reading applies depends on whether the verb is about movement or about change.

Examples

〜ていく is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Shall we walk or drive?

  2. Take an amulet for safety's sake.

  3. The rocket went up.

  4. I took him to the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

  5. Don't leave me behind!

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.