What is this verb form - 通れ This is an example from the Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary: > {} **** > He thrust his dagger home [up to the hilt] into the man's chest. What is the grammar behind this verb form of ? Is this a fixed expression?

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in meaning, is equal to:

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is the []{} (imperative form) the of the verb .

is what the guy thought to himself as he stabbed the other guy. He wanted to stab deep. = "Let even the hilt go through!"

This is no fixed expression, but you will keep seeing the structure:

> Verb A in imperative + + Verb phrase B=
>
> "(Someone) did (Verb B) thinking/saying/praying, etc. 'Let (Verb A) happen!'"

Needless to say, is the quotative particle.