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やって来る

やってくる

to come around, to come along

Mnemonic

Not simply arriving. Making the entire journey and turning up on the doorstep, big top and all, from France. Too cool くる to go to them, so they came to you: やってくる.

Worth knowing

More vivid than 来る on its own. It carries the sense of having come all that way to get here.

Built from

come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.

Words sharing these kanji

to come to be able to do, to be good at next year next month future originally, essentially to bring over, to bring along occurrence, incident since one's future, in the future

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