This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Japanese grammar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(August 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
This article has an unclear citation style. The reason given is: The citation style is inconsistent throughout the article. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting.(June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
(Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Its phrases are exclusively head-final and compound sentences are exclusively left-branching.[a] Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated, primarily for tense and voice, but not person. Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned.
In language typology, it has many features different from most European languages.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
basic Japanesegrammar. Japan Times. ISBN 4-7890-0454-6 Makino, Seiichi & Tsutsui, Michio. (1995). A dictionary of intermediate Japanesegrammar. Japan Times...
pronunciation of Japanese in the Heian Period, the time-frame in which Early Middle Japanese (on which the grammar of classical Japanese is based) was spoken...
do that action". Japanese godan and ichidan verbs Honorific speech in JapaneseJapanese adjectives Japanese particles Japanesegrammar Banno et al. 2020a...
likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanesegrammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text...
between gender, formality, dialect and region where Japanese is spoken. In modern Japanesegrammar, pronouns are not a distinct part of speech, but a subclass...
Japanese particles, joshi (助詞) or tenioha (てにをは), are suffixes or short words in Japanesegrammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective...
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural rules on speakers' or writers' usage and creation of clauses, phrases, and...
counter, -wa (羽), is used for rabbits. Japanese units of measurement Miura, Akira (1996). "Handbook of JapaneseGrammar". The Modern Language Journal. 80 (3):...
The Japanese language has a system of honorific speech, referred to as keigo (Japanese: 敬（けい）語（ご）, literally "respectful language"), parts of speech that...
would be ryōshin (両親). Although honorifics are not essential to the grammar of Japanese, they are a fundamental part of its sociolinguistics, and their proper...
grammar of the Japanese language. It was compiled by João Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. It is the oldest fully extant Japanesegrammar and...
to Japanese-English Onomatopoeia and Mimesis. Tokyo: Hokuseidoo. Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, Dictionary of Basic JapaneseGrammar, The Japan Times...
This article deals with Japanese equivalents of English adjectives. In Japanese, nouns and verbs can modify nouns, with nouns taking the 〜の particles...
Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century)....
exhaustive list of words. Japanese verb conjugation Honorific speech in JapaneseJapanese adjectives Japanese particles Japanesegrammar 五段活用 Banno, Eri; Ikeda...
misunderstood to be the only irregular verbs in Japanese. However, there are about a dozen irregular verbs in Japanese, depending on how one counts. The other...
Kanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [kaɲdʑi]) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. They were...
Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.6%...
A Japanese Grammar (in Japanese) (4 ed.). Japan: Hitsuji Shobou. p. 27. ISBN 978-4-89476-244-2. Mäkinen, Panu. "Finnish grammar - adverbial cases". users...
Traditional grammar (also known as classical grammar) is a framework for the description of the structure of a language. The roots of traditional grammar are...
Okinawan Japanese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, Uchinaa Yamatu-guchi) is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. Okinawan Japanese's accents...
Japanese and was a lead interpreter in high level negotiations, as with Hideyoshi. He compiled essential reference books including a Japanesegrammar...
outlines the grammar of the Dutch language, which shares strong similarities with German grammar and also, to a lesser degree, with English grammar. Vowel length...
Global Information
