Late Middle Japanese
Late Middle Japanese has two types of adjectival nouns: na and t-.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N- | -nara | -ni -de |
-dya -na |
-naru -na no |
-nare | |
| T- | -to | -taru |
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