連体

Japanese

Kanji in this term
連	体
れん Grade: 4	たい Grade: 2
on’yomi	goon

Alternative spelling
連體 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Coined in Japanese from Middle Chinese-derived components, as a compound of 連 (ren, “accompanying”) +‎ 体 (tai, “nominative”, short for 体言 (taigen, “uninflecting word”)).

First cited to a text from 1834.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) れんたい [rèńtáí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾẽ̞nta̠i]

Noun

連(れん)体(たい) • (rentai) 

1. [from 1834] (grammar, attributive) attribution (of a quality to a nominative in Japanese grammar)

   Coordinate term: 連用 (ren'yō)

2. [from 1844] short for 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) or 連体言 (rentaigen, “attributive word”, older synonym for modern rentaikei)

Derived terms

• 連体形(れんたいけい) (rentaikei, “attributive form”, of an inflecting word)
• 連体言(れんたいげん) (rentaigen, “attributive word”, older synonym for modern rentaikei)
• 連(れん)体(たい)詞(し) (rentaishi, “adnominal”, word that can only be used attributively before a nominative, and cannot be used predicatively)
• 連(れん)体(たい)修(しゅう)飾(しょく)語(ご) (rentai shūshokugo, “attributive qualifier”)
• 連体法(れんたいほう) (rentaihō, “attributive mode”)