go / come (somewhere) in order to do something

The masu stem of a verb plus ni plus a motion verb expresses purpose of movement: kai ni ikimasu means go to buy. With suru verbs, the noun alone can stand before ni, as in kaimono ni iku. The place is marked with e or ni as usual.

Examples

• デパートへ靴くつを買かいに行いきます。

  Depaato e kutsu o kai ni ikimasu.

  I'm going to the department store to buy shoes.

• 友達ともだちが日本にほんへ遊あそびに来きました。

  Tomodachi ga Nihon e asobi ni kimashita.

  My friend came to Japan for a visit.

Vocabulary in these examples

• デパート department store
• 靴 shoes
• 買う to buy
• 行く to go
• 友達 friend
• 遊ぶ to play; to have fun

Related patterns · Verb forms

• 〜ます polite non-past verb form
• 〜ません polite negative (do not / will not)
• 〜ました / 〜ませんでした polite past (did / did not)
• 〜ない plain negative verb form
• 〜た plain past verb form
• 辞書形 dictionary (plain non-past) form and its uses