語尾

語尾

See also: 语尾

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔwěi

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˇ ㄨㄟˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǔwěi [Phonetic: yúwěi]
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˇ ㄨㄟˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeuwoei
    • IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴⁻³⁵ u̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

語尾

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

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Japanese

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

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ご​び [góꜜbì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɡo̞bʲi]

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