Early Middle Japanese
Early Middle Japanese has two types of adjectival nouns: na- and tar-.
| Type | Irrealis 未然形 |
Adverbial 連用形 |
Conclusive 終止形 |
Attributive 連体形 |
Realis 已然形 |
Imperative 命令形 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Na- | -nara | -nari -ni |
-nari | -naru -na |
-nare | |
| Tar- | -to | -tari | -taru |
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