An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language

INDEX 369

bound volumes, 239
cups, 240
floor surface, 244
floors in a building, 241
instances, 242
items, 242
japanese currency, 243
long cylindrical items, 238
machinery, 240
number of, 242
sheets, 239
Counters for living things
birds and rabbits, 245
large animals, 246
people, 247
small animals and fish, 245
Counters for occurence
degrees, 247
issue number, 249
number of times, 247 , 248
rank, 248
Counting, 228
Counting pronunciation rules
( ), 232
( ), 232
( ), 233
( ), 234
( ), 232
( ), 232
Curt negative, 94

Day after tomorrow, 254
Day before yesterday, 254
Days of the week, 267
Degrees Celsius, 247
Demanding face, 299 , 301
Derision, 159
Description, 71
Desire
first person, 117
second and third person, 118

states, 120

Diacritic, 7

Diaphragm, 10

Direct object, 57

Disambiguate, 58

Disambiguator, 58

Distal, 81

Do and come back, 111

Do whatever you can to ..., 196

Doing, 84

Doing for someone, 308

Dollar, 244

Double consonant, 12 , 14

Double negative, 320

complex, 320

regular, 320

Drum beat, 9 , 12 , 14

Due to ..., 186

East, 224

Easy to ..., 102

Edo period, 19

Edojidai, 19

Effeminate , 183

Emoji, 21

Emphasis, 42

Emphatic, 100

Emphatic particles, 178

dubitative, 182 , 183

emphatic, 178 , 180 , 181

hopefulness, 183

informative, 178 , 180 , 184

open noun list, 183

reiterating, 182

resignation, 183

rhetoric, 179

stative, 181

strong rhetoric, 180

Enrichment particles

as soon as ..., 206