This study aims to compile a list of compound verbs that have been used frequently over the past decades for a total of 104 high school Japanese textbooks, and then compare it with high-frequency lists from previous studies, and propose a list of compound verbs that will be considered important in future Japanese textbooks. The principal results are as follows:BR (1) The list of frequent compound verbs in the past are as follows: 言い替える、受け取る、落ち付く、思い出す、書き表す、書き入れる、書き替える、書き直す、繰り返す、差し上げる、出会う、出掛ける、似合う、乗り替える、話し合う、見付ける、召し上がる、申し上げるBR (2) The list of important compound verbs in the future are as follows: 出掛ける、付き合う、出会う、似合う、引っ越す、召し上がる、受け取る、落ち付く、思い出す、繰り返す、乗り替える、話し合う、見付ける、申し込むBR The study also suggests that it will be necessary in the future to proactively offer highly productive syntactic compound verbs such as