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Japanese
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| 連體 (kyūjitai)
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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”)).[1][2][3][4]
First cited to a text from 1834.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
連体 • (rentai)
- (grammar, attributive) attribution (of a quality to a nominative in Japanese grammar)
- Coordinate term: 連用 (ren'yō)
- 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 (rentaikei, “attributive form”, of an inflecting word)
- 連体言 (rentaigen, “attributive word”, older synonym for modern rentaikei)
- 連体詞 (rentaishi, “adnominal”, word that can only be used attributively before a nominative, and cannot be used predicatively)
- 連体修飾語 (rentai shūshokugo, “attributive qualifier”)
- 連体法 (rentaihō, “attributive mode”)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “連体”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ “連体”, in デジタル大辞泉 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN