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To recap, the verb stem is the polite form of the verb with the ます removed.

Verb Dictionary Polite Stem
to go 行いく 行いきます 行いき〜
to eat 食たべる 食たべます 食たべ〜
to do する します し〜

We can use the verb stem with the kanji 方 to say “way of doing something”—an especially handy phrase when you first set foot in the Japan and there are many things you don’t yet know.

正ただしいやり方かたを教おしえてください。
Please show me the correct way to do this.
先生せんせいの話はなし方かたが面白おもしろいです。
The teacher has an amusing way of speaking.
このマシンの使つかい方かたがわかりません。
I don’t know the way to use this machine.
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