語尾

See also: 语尾

Chinese
 
speech; language; dialect; tell to
 tail
trad. (語尾) 語 尾
simp. (语尾) 语 尾

Pronunciation

Noun

語尾

  1. (grammar) end of a sentence
  2. (grammar) Alternative name for 詞尾／词尾 (cíwěi, “suffix; ending”).

Japanese
Kanji in this term
語 尾
ご
Grade: 2		 び
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

語尾 (hiragana ごび, rōmaji gobi)

  1. ending (grammar: last morpheme of a word)

Usage notes

The segmentation of Japanese verbs into a 語 (ご)幹 (かん) (gokan, “stem”) and 語 (ご)尾 (び) (gobi, “ending”) is different in traditional Japanese grammar and western linguistic analysis.

  • Group I (godan, consonant-stem) verbs have the ending /Cu/ in traditional Japanese grammar, and /u/ in the western linguistic analysis. Hence 飲む (nomu) is の・む (no-mu) in the former and nom-u in the latter.
  • Group II (ichidan, vowel-stem) verbs have the ending /Ciru/ or /Ceru/ in traditional Japanese grammar, and /ru/ in the western linguistic analysis. Hence 食べる (taberu) is た・べる (ta-beru) in the former and tabe-ru in the latter.

Derived terms
  • 語 (ご)尾 (び)変 (へん)化 (か) (gobihenka)

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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