What is the meaning of this テイル形 For context: my language partner wrote me back and she explained to me in Japanese the use and grammar behind "-form + " in the context of one's personal past. The sentence in question (including some pretext): > > > **** My attempt at translation of the bold part: > "Concerning what Andreas said, I think it is 'experience/personal history revealing TAIL-FIGURE'". This "Tail-figure" doesn't make much sense, at least to me since I have no idea what it is supposed to tell me...^^ I would be happy if someone could elaborate :=)

> {}{}{}{} ****

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Voilà, you have the -form of the verb there!

And it certainly expresses one's " ** _experience/personal history_** " of ("working part-time teaching German to immigrant children").

"Tail-figure" is just out of the question. Users here tend to "translate" things too early, namely, before even understanding the words and phrases in question.

As a Japanese learner, you must have encountered the terms such as , etc. is just another one of those terms. Those are discussed all day every day here.