係り結び
Japanese
Kanji in this term
係
結
かか
Grade: 3
むす
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of
係り結び
– see the following entry.
【
かかりむすび
】
[noun]
kakarimusubi
, a phenomenon in classical Japanese where certain words (a subset of
係助詞
(
kakari-joshi
)
) provoke the usage of different verbal inflexion at the end of the sentence (
呼応
(
koō
)
)
Alternative spellings
係結び
,
係結
(This term,
係り結び
, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)