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Japanese conjugation, the Glossary

Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known as conjugation.^[1]

49 relations: Affirmation and negation, Agglutination, Auxiliary verb, Causative, Conditional mood, Conjunction (grammar), Context (linguistics), Double negative, Early Middle Japanese, English conditional sentences, Gerund, Grammatical conjugation, Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Grammatical particle, Grammatical person, Grammatical tense, Hiragana, Historical kana orthography, Honorific speech in Japanese, Imperative mood, Imperfective aspect, Indirect speech, Irrealis mood, Japanese adjectives, Japanese godan and ichidan verbs, Japanese grammar, Japanese irregular verbs, Japanese language, Japanese particles, Kana, Kanji, Lemma (morphology), Literal translation, Middle Japanese, Morpheme, Morphology (linguistics), Old Japanese, Passive voice, Perfective aspect, Phonaesthetics, Predicate (grammar), Present continuous, Sense-for-sense translation, Suffix, Suppletion, Syncretism (linguistics), Volition (linguistics), Word stem.
Japanese grammar
Japonic verbs

Affirmation and negation

In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated) and negation are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances.

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Agglutination

In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.

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Auxiliary verb

An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.

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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).

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Conditional mood

The conditional mood (abbreviated) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual.

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Conjunction (grammar)

In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.

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Context (linguistics)

In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.

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Double negative

A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.

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Early Middle Japanese

is a stage of the Japanese language between 794 and 1185, which is known as the Heian period.

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Prototypical conditional sentences in English are those of the form "If X, then Y". The clause X is referred to as the antecedent (or protasis), while the clause Y is called the consequent (or apodosis).

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Gerund

In linguistics, a gerund (abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun.

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Grammatical conjugation

In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar).

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical particle

In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.

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Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

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Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

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Honorific speech in Japanese

The Japanese language has a system of honorific speech, referred to as, parts of speech that show respect. Japanese conjugation and honorific speech in Japanese are Japanese grammar.

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Imperative mood

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

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Imperfective aspect

The imperfective (abbreviated or more ambiguously) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in the past, present, or future.

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Indirect speech

In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it.

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Irrealis mood

In linguistics, irrealis moods (abbreviated) are the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to have happened at the moment the speaker is talking.

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Japanese adjectives

This article deals with Japanese equivalents of English adjectives. Japanese conjugation and Japanese adjectives are Japanese grammar.

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Japanese godan and ichidan verbs

The Japanese language has two main types of verbs which are referred to as and. Japanese conjugation and Japanese godan and ichidan verbs are Japanese grammar and Japonic verbs.

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Japanese grammar

Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent.

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Japanese irregular verbs

Japanese verb conjugation is very regular, as is usual for an agglutinative language, but there are a number of exceptions. Japanese conjugation and Japanese irregular verbs are Japanese grammar and Japonic verbs.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, or, are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence. Japanese conjugation and Japanese particles are Japanese grammar.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Lemma (morphology)

In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms.

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Literal translation

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.

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Middle Japanese

Middle Japanese may refer to.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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Old Japanese

is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century).

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Passive voice

A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages.

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Perfective aspect

The perfective aspect (abbreviated), sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole, i.e., a unit without interior composition.

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Phonaesthetics

Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.

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Predicate (grammar)

The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields.

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Present continuous

The present continuous, also called the present progressive or present imperfect, is a verb form used in modern English that combines the present tense with the continuous aspect.

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Sense-for-sense translation

Sense-for-sense translation is the oldest norm for translating.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Suppletion

In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.

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Syncretism (linguistics)

In linguistics, syncretism exists when functionally distinct occurrences of a single lexeme, morph or phone are identical in form.

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Volition (linguistics)

In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not.

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Word stem

In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_conjugation

Also known as Conjugation of verbs in Japanese, Japanese Verbs, Japanese conjugations, Japanese verb, Japanese verb conjugation, Japanese verb conjugations, Japanese verb conjugations and adjective declensions, Te form of Japanese verb, .

Japanese conjugation, the Glossary

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Japanese grammar

Japonic verbs

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