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
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁵ mei⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yǔwěi [Phonetic: yúwěi]
  - Zhuyin: ㄩˇ ㄨㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yǔwěi
  - Wade–Giles: yü³-wei³
  - Yale: yǔ-wěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeuwoei
  - Palladius: юйвэй (jujvɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /y²¹⁴⁻³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyu⁵ mei⁵
  - Yale: yúh méih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁵ mei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: yu⁵ méi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː¹³ mei̯¹³/

Noun

語尾

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

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ごび [góꜜbì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɡo̞bʲi]

Noun

語(ご)尾(び) • (gobi)

ending (grammar: last morpheme of a word)

Usage notes

The segmentation of Japanese verbs into a 語幹(ごかん) (gokan, “stem”) and 語尾(ごび) (gobi, “ending”) is different in traditional Japanese grammar and modern linguistic analysis.

Group I (godan, consonant-stem) verbs have the ending /Cu/ in traditional Japanese grammar, and /u/ in the modern 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 modern linguistic analysis. Hence 食べる (taberu) is た・べる (ta-beru) in the former and tabe-ru in the latter. Two-mora verbs such as 見る (miru) cannot be segmented in traditional Japanese grammar.

Derived terms

語尾変化(ごびへんか) (gobihenka)
キャラ語尾(ごび) (kyara gobi)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
語	尾

Noun

語尾 • (eomi) (hangeul 어미)

hanja form^? of 어미 (“ending (of a word)”)

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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