なる vs する 1: くする・くなる

Introduction

Today's lesson is a bit different. Instead of giving you a bunch of new information, I'm going to review a topic from Beginner and start to slooowwlly layer some new techniques on top. Why? Because the particular grammar we're dealing with here has a lot of different forms and combinations, and I don't want you to get (too) confused!

This lesson and the one that directly follows it will cover なる and する in combination with various parts of speech. Let's get cracking.

To make? Or to become. That is the question.

Structure

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  い-adjective(く)なる・する
  Example:
  → コーヒーが熱あつくなった。
  "The coffee became hot.”

Like I mentioned, we first need to review a few things.