連用形
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[edit] Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
| 連 | 用 | 形 |
[edit] Noun
連用形 (hiragana れんようけい, romaji ren'yōkei)
- (grammar) An inflectional category; the conjunctive form. This is the base form after which various conjugational endings are added, such as て (te) or ます (masu). See Appendix:Japanese verbs for more details.
[edit] Usage notes
As a term describing an inherently Japanese grammatical form, 連用形 is sometimes just transliterated. When rendered into English, the term has been translated different ways by different authors. Alternate glosses include:
- adverbial
- base form
- conjunctional
- continuative
- deverbal noun
- infinitive
- stem form
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[edit] References
- 1999, Sandness, Karen, The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective suffixes, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, ISBN 0-939-51292-0, page 3, 12, 42, others:
- 1948, Henderson, Harold Gould, Handbook of Japanese Grammar, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 12:
- 1932, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 6, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, page 643:
