品詞. The primary lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and particles. In linguistics, often referred to as 'lexical class' or 'word class'.
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About the な part in negative imperative verb form (e.g. 飲むな)
In the Japanese version of "don't drink and drive" slogan, 【乗るなら飲むな】 (also 【飲んだら乗るな】), what part of speech is the な that follows the plain verb 飲む (or 乗る in the second variation) to form the negative imperative verb form?
At first I thought it was…
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Which part of speech is the 「ぞ」 in 「神のみぞ知るセカイ」?
「神{かみ}のみぞ知{し}るセカイ」 is the title of a manga/anime series but I'm not asking about the anime. I'm just curious about the 「ぞ」 part in the title.
I know there is a ぞ particle that is similar to よ, such that 行{い}くぞ is similar to 行くよ. But I have never…
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Verb classifications by japanese learners
As a studies of Japanese I've come across two distinct ways to group verbs for purposes of remembering how to conjugate them.
う動詞 / る動詞
Group1 / Group 2
Pacerier mentioned a verb1 and verb5, can someone explain to me how the verbs are divided for…
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Why 「の多く」in 作品の多く?
「あしたのジョー」以外の作品の多くは "梶原一騎" のペンネームで書かれました。
I have searched and found that 「多く」is adverb or adjective and it should be placed before the particle 「の」. Is the word a kind of noun or particle 「の」can be placed before adjective?
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What does うんたらかんたら mean?
I recently heard this phrase being told in a show, but I just couldn't make sense of what it means...And what really caught my attention was that the listener was really surprised to hear this phrase being told.
Here is a quote:
A:…
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How exactly are 準体助詞 and 形式名詞 different? In what regard? And where does の stand?
I have read several definitions (e.g. here and here) and explanations (here for example), but I am not sure any real differences are drawn except one is 助詞, the other 名詞.
The list given for…
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Translation of "に" into "natural" English
All of my Japanese teachers have told me that な-adjectives converted to に-ending words and い-adjectives converted to く-ending words, when followed by a verb, are 'adverbs'. However, sentences sound ridiculous when translated in keeping with this…
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Do certain particles behave like nouns? Case in point:「かも」
これもしかしたら最後のスタック・エクスチェンジの投稿になるかもなのです。
その質問はちょっとムズイかもだから、パスします。
Everywhere I looked「かも」is listed as 助詞. Does this mean some particles behave like nouns? It's also interesting to note that 「かも」comes from「かもしれない」which conjugates like an i-adjective.…
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Is 何か an adverb?
何かいいことがあったか？
何か一言を言ってください
In sentences like these, is 何か an adverb? I have read that counters such as 一つ are adverbs when used in sentences like りんごを一つ食べた. Is it possible that 何か is functioning like an adverb similar to how 一つ is functioning like…
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How is 所載 used?
WaniKani taught me 所載, for which it offers the meaning "published".
On jisho I see: 1. printed; published; noted or mentioned (in a publication), but it is listed as a noun. And it definitely looks like one in Japanese, but the English "printed,…
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The て form, the と and もの constructions: gerund, participle, transgressive, or verbal noun?
As far as I understand, among the constructions
(て-form verb),
(て-form verb)いる,
(finite verb)こと,
(finite verb)の,
(verb phrase)と,
(finite verb)もの
the form (2) unambiguously functions as a finite verb (denotes a progressive, a perfective or an…
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is suki an adjective and a verb?
I thought that "suki" was a verb which meant "to like". It is hard to me to make sense why it seems to be always used with "desu".
Now in a webpage I read that suki is an adjective, which means something like "liked" like some sort of passive voice…
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What part-of-speech is ゲゲゲ in ゲゲゲの鬼太郎?
I don't know if "part-of-speech" is the best term here, since it generally has a Western language orientation, but I am curious as to what function the word gegege has in reference to the TV show title GeGeGe no Kitarō. I asked my grandma—a native…
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In technical usage, is there any difference between 間投詞 and 感動詞?
デジタル大辞泉 gives the following definition of 間投詞:
《interjection》「感動詞」に同じ。
It also gives the following definition of 感動詞 (emphasis…
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