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  2. Japanese godan and ichidan verbs - Wikipedia

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    Kanji verbs with 2 okurigana are usually monograde verbs. For example, 起きる (okiru, to get up) and 食べる (taberu, to eat) are monograde verbs. Kanji verbs with 2 syllables are inconclusive. For example, 切る (ki-ru) and 見る (mi-ru) are both 2-syllable verbs, yet belong to different categories (pentagrade and monograde, respectively)

  3. Ha (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Ha (hiragana: は, katakana: ハ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.Both represent [ha].They are also used as a grammatical particle (in such cases, they denote [wa], including in the greeting "kon'nichiwa") and serve as the topic marker of the sentence.

  4. Japanese irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    These 5 special polite verbs have the slight irregularity that 〜る -ru changes to 〜い -i in the -masu stem (continuative form, 連用形) and imperative stem (命令形), as opposed to the expected ×〜り *-ri and ×〜れ *-re. As these all end in -aru, these can be termed "aru special class". The most commonly encountered of these is ...

  5. Japanese grammar - Wikipedia

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    猫 neko cat の no GEN 色 iro color 猫 の 色 neko no iro cat GEN color "the cat's (neko no) color (iro)" noun governed by an adposition: 日本 nihon Japan に ni in 日本 に nihon ni Japan in " in Japan" comparison: Y Y Y‍ より yori than 大きい ookii big Y より 大きい Y yori ookii Y‍ than big " big ger than Y" noun modified by an adjective: 黒い kuroi black 猫 neko cat ...

  6. Japanese conjugation - Wikipedia

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    This also resulted in a reclassification of "yodan verbs" to "godan verbs" (五段動詞, godan-dōshi, "Class‑5 verbs"). [ 8 ] [ 15 ] The ren'yōkei base also underwent various euphonic changes specific to the perfective and conjunctive ( te ) forms for certain verb stems, [ 26 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] giving rise to the onbinkei or euphonic base. [ 17 ]

  7. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

  8. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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    Normative pitch accent, essentially the pitch accent of the Tokyo Yamanote dialect, is considered essential in jobs such as broadcasting.The current standards for pitch accent are presented in special accent dictionaries for native speakers such as the Shin Meikai Nihongo Akusento Jiten (新明解日本語アクセント辞典) and the NHK Nihongo Hatsuon Akusento Jiten (NHK日本語発音 ...

  9. Japanese numerals - Wikipedia

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    二夜 futayo 2 (2 nights) 3 mi 1: 三十 mi 1 so 1 (30) 4 yo 2: 四十 yo 2 so 1 (40), 四人 yo 2 tari (4 people) 5 itu: 五年 ituto 2 se (5 years) 6 mu: 六爪 mutuma (6 claws) 7 nana: 七瀬 nanase (many rapids) Often used to mean many. 8 ya: 八雲 yakumo 1 (many clouds) Often used to mean many. 9 ko 2 ko 2 no 2: 九柱 ko 2 ko 2 no 2 ...