A Simplified Grammar of the Japanese Language (modern Written Style)Trübner & Company, 1886 - 105 pages |
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... Nouns having a final n are mostly of Chinese origin . y is always a consonant . Thus the syllable mya in myaku , " the pulse , " is pronounced as one syllable , like mia in the English word " amiable . " Care must be taken not to ...
... Nouns having a final n are mostly of Chinese origin . y is always a consonant . Thus the syllable mya in myaku , " the pulse , " is pronounced as one syllable , like mia in the English word " amiable . " Care must be taken not to ...
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... noun , which , besides the substantive properly so - called , includes the pronoun , the numeral , and many words corresponding to English adjectives ; II the postposition , corresponding for the most part to the English preposition ...
... noun , which , besides the substantive properly so - called , includes the pronoun , the numeral , and many words corresponding to English adjectives ; II the postposition , corresponding for the most part to the English preposition ...
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... nouns , partly by one of the inflections of the adjective . Conjunctions are partly included under the heading of postpositions , and partly expressed by certain inflections of the verb . Interjections exist , as in other languages ...
... nouns , partly by one of the inflections of the adjective . Conjunctions are partly included under the heading of postpositions , and partly expressed by certain inflections of the verb . Interjections exist , as in other languages ...
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Basil Hall Chamberlain. UNINFLECTED WORDS . SEC . 1 . CHAPTER III . THE NOUN . THE SUBSTANTIVE PROPERLY SO - CALLED . 1. The substantive is indeclinable , distinctions of number and gender being left to be gathered from the context , and ...
Basil Hall Chamberlain. UNINFLECTED WORDS . SEC . 1 . CHAPTER III . THE NOUN . THE SUBSTANTIVE PROPERLY SO - CALLED . 1. The substantive is indeclinable , distinctions of number and gender being left to be gathered from the context , and ...
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... NOUNS USED AS ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS . 1. — Japanese has comparatively few true adjectives , and in a great number of cases uses nouns instead , just as in English we say " a gold watch , " " a Turkey carpet . " A noun may do duty for ...
... NOUNS USED AS ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS . 1. — Japanese has comparatively few true adjectives , and in a great number of cases uses nouns instead , just as in English we say " a gold watch , " " a Turkey carpet . " A noun may do duty for ...
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Actual Concessive attributive form Author BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN British Buddhist C. M. Ingleby Chinese clause cloth College colloquial compound conclusive form corresponding Crown 8vo Demy 8vo DICTIONARY domo English and Foreign Essay F. W. Newman Fcap Foreign Philosophical Library French Geology German gerund GRAMMAR Henry History hito honorific iedomo Illustrations indefinite form India Indicative INDICATIVE MOOD Japanese Japanese adjective Japanese language John kore koto LANGUAGE late Lectures LL.D London Max Müller mi(ru miru Modern motte nari naru Notes nouns numerous OBLIQUE MOODS Original paper pass passive Ph.D PHILOSOPHY Plates Post 8vo postpositions praise Present Hypothetical pronouns RELIGION Royal 8vo Samuel Butler Sanskrit Second Edition sentence sewed shite Small 4to Society sōrō stem suffixed sugu suru tense Text Third Edition tion Translated Trübner's Oriental Series verb verb or adjective viii Vocabulary W. R. Greg words wrapper yori yuku
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