カ行変格活用

See also: カ行變格活用

Japanese

Alternative spelling
カ行變格活用 (kyūjitai)

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カ行変格活用

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Compound of カ行 (kagyō, “ka-row”) +‎ 変格活用 (henkaku katsuyō, “irregular conjugation”).

カ行変格活用(ぎょうへんかくかつよう) • (ka-gyō henkaku katsuyō) ^{←かぎやうへんかくくわつよう (ka-gyau fenkaku kwatuyou)^?}

Modern	未然形 Irrealis	連用形 Adverbial	終止形 Conclusive	連体形 Attributive	仮定形 Conditional	命令形 Imperative
来る (kur-, “to come”)	来 (ko)	来 (ki)	来る (kuru)	来る (kuru)	来れ (kure)	来い (koi)
Archaic	未然形 Irrealis	連用形 Adverbial	終止形 Conclusive	連体形 Attributive	已然形 Realis	命令形 Imperative
来 (k-, “to come”)	来 (ko₂ → ko)	来 (ki₁ → ki)	来 (ku)	来る (kuru)	来れ (kure)	来 (ko₂ → ko) 来よ (ko₂yo₂ → koyo)

The subscripts in the table above indicate differences in vowel class that were already being lost in Old Japanese. It remains unclear what those different vowel classes may have meant. See the Syllables section in the Wikipedia article on Old Japanese for more details.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN