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  2. Japanese conjugation - Wikipedia

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    For Japanese verbs, the verb stem remains invariant among all conjugations. However, conjugation patterns vary according to a verb's category. For example, 知る (shiru) and 着る (kiru) belong to different verb categories (godan and ichidan, respectively) and therefore follow different conjugation patterns. As such, knowing a verb's category ...

  3. Japanese irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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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. The best-known irregular verbs (不規則動詞[citation needed], fukisoku dōshi) are the common verbs する suru "do" and 来る kuru "come", sometimes categorized as the two Group 3 verbs.

  4. Japanese grammar - Wikipedia

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    Lexically, nearly every verb in Japanese is a member of exactly one of the following three regular conjugation groups (see also Japanese godan and ichidan verbs). Group 2a (上一段, kami ichidan, lit. upper 1-row) verbs with a stem ending in -i. The terminal stem form always rhymes with -iru. Examples: miru (見る, "to see"), kiru (着る ...

  5. Japanese godan and ichidan verbs - Wikipedia

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    The 五段 (godan "pentagrade" or "quinquigrade") class consists of verbs whose inflection forms make use of all five grades, or five vowels. For example, the inflection forms of the verb 書く (kaku "to write; to draw", ka -row) are 書か (kaka)/書こ (kako), 書き (kaki), 書く (kaku), and 書け (kake). These verbs developed from the ...

  6. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...

  7. Classical Japanese - Wikipedia

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    For example, the modern version conclusive form of the classical verb 來 (く) (k-u "to come") is 来る (くる) (k-uru), but the modern form is given in the table as 来 (く) (k-u), which is the way that a modern Japanese writer would write the classical Japanese word, rather than the way they would write the modern Japanese word.

  8. Compound verb - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi- word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector, which carries any inflections, indicating tense, mood, or aspect, but provides only fine shades of meaning. The other, "primary", component is a verb or noun which carries ...

  9. Early Middle Japanese - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese there are many different yougens with the same pronunciation, or the same yougen has various meanings. To distinguish, modern transliteration uses Kanji to highlight these differences. For example, the Upper bigrade verbs「 慣 (な) る 」means "get used to", but its also means "become familiar" which is represented by「 馴 ...

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