See also: 语尾

Chinese edit

 
speech; language; dialect
speech; language; dialect; tell to
tail
trad. (語尾)
simp. (语尾)

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

語尾

  1. (grammar) end of a sentence
  2. (grammar) Alternative name for 詞尾词尾 (cíwěi, “suffix; ending”).

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2

Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

()() (gobi

  1. ending (grammar: last morpheme of a word)

Usage notes edit

The segmentation of Japanese verbs into a 語幹(ごかん) (gokan, stem) and 語尾(ごび) (gobi, ending) is different in traditional Japanese grammar and modern linguistic analysis.

  • Group I (godan, consonant-stem) verbs have the ending /Cu/ in traditional Japanese grammar, and /u/ in the modern linguistic analysis. Hence 飲む (nomu) is の・む (no-mu) in the former and nom-u in the latter.
  • Group II (ichidan, vowel-stem) verbs have the ending /Ciru/ or /Ceru/ in traditional Japanese grammar, and /ru/ in the modern linguistic analysis. Hence 食べる (taberu) is た・べる (ta-beru) in the former and tabe-ru in the latter. Two-mora verbs such as 見る (miru) cannot be segmented in traditional Japanese grammar.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

語尾 (eomi) (hangeul 어미)

  1. Hanja form? of 어미 (ending (of a word)).