子音動詞

しいんどうし
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A class of verbs whose stems end in a consonant—commonly corresponds to godan (五段) verbs in modern Japanese (e.g. 書く, 話す, 読む). A grammatical term.

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「書く」は子音動詞の代表例で、語幹が子音で終わります。

“書く” is a representative consonant-stem verb; its stem ends in a consonant.

子音動詞は語尾の活用が五段に変化するのが特徴です。

Consonant-stem verbs are characterized by their five-row (godan) conjugation patterns.

文法書で子音動詞と母音動詞を比べて使い分けを説明している。

A grammar book explains the distinction between consonant-stem verbs and vowel-stem verbs.

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