grammar (bunpou)
代名詞
だいめいし
(1)(ling) pronoun, (2)synonym, classic example, pattern, byword, representative bunpou
訛り
なまり
(1)(uk) accent (of one's speech), (2)dialect, provincialism, patois, (3)corrupted form (e.g. of word), mispronunciation bunpou
国字
こくじ
(1)country's official writing system, native script, (2)kana, (3)kanji that originated in Japan (as opposed to China) bunpou
口語
こうご
(1)spoken language, (2)literary style based on (modern) spoken language bunpou
外来語
がいらいご
(ling) borrowed word, foreign origin wordbunpou
謙譲語
けんじょうご
(ling) humble language (e.g. itadaku)bunpou
命令形
めいれいけい
(ling) imperative form, commandbunpou
句読点
くとうてん
(ling) punctuation mark, punctuation marksbunpou
状態動詞
じょうたいどうし
(ling) stative verb, state verb, non-progressive verbbunpou
語幹
ごかん
(ling) stem, root of a wordbunpou
畳語
じょうご
(ling) syllable repetition (indicating plurals)bunpou
俗語
ぞくご
colloquialism, colloquial languagebunpou
共通語
きょうつうご
common term, common language, lingua franca, standard languagebunpou
万葉仮名
まんようがな
early Japanese syllabary composed of Chinese characters used phoneticallybunpou
仮名遣い
かなづかい
kana orthography, syllabary spellingbunpou
常用漢字
じょうようかんじ
kanji for common use (list of 2,136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1,945 established in 1981)bunpou
半濁点
はんだくてん
maru mark, semivoiced sound, p-soundbunpou
片言
かたこと
(1)brief remark, few words, (2)one side (e.g. of an argument), ex-parte statement bunpou
部首
ぶしゅ
radical (of a kanji character)bunpou
標準語
ひょうじゅんご
standard language (of a country), standard Japanesebunpou
広義
こうぎ
wide sense, broader applicationbunpou