Early Modern Japanese (Edo)
The later half of Early Modern Japanese as found in Edo has a single type of adjectival noun with the following inflections.
| Irrealis 未然形 |
Adverbial 連用形 |
Conclusive 終止形 |
Attributive 連体形 |
Hypothetical 仮定形 |
Imperative 命令形 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -daro | -daQ -de -ni |
-da | -na | -nara |
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