Talk:않다

Inflection

@Wyang. Does this comment in the entry: "note that like many auxiliary adjective/verbs, 않다 has unusual inflectional properties, which it may not be possible to represent with an inflectional template" have any value? I don't know the full paradigm, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

It seems correct to me, although it should be no imperative for the verb. Wyang (talk) 00:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you pls remove the imperative, I wouldn't have a clue how. :) Or you think it should still be there for consistency? Japanese ない has an imperative form. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:55, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I see you have removed it. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:56, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

@Anatoli, many inflected forms for any -い adjective in Japanese arise from contraction with ある. So the imperative form for ない -- なかれ -- came about by fusion of なく + あれ. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 17:54, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

なかれ is etymologically the imperative of ない, but it is not used as such. It is an archaic prohibitive suffix like the modern な. 言うなかれ = 言うな. And as you may know well, adjectives have already lost their imperative:

	Archaic	Poetic	Modern
優しい	優しかれ	優しくあれ	優しくしろ
静かだ	静かなれ	静かであれ	静かにしろ
堂々と	堂々たれ	堂々たれ 堂々とあれ	堂々としろ

— TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 10:22, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

diff: adj. vs verb

I understand that Korean adjectives and verbs conjugate slightly differently. Perhaps 않다 inherits this difference from the adjective / verb it's attached to? —Suzukaze-c (talk) 06:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)