Late Old Japanese
Late Old Japanese has two types of adjectival nouns: nar- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nar- | -nara | -nari -ni |
-nari | -naru | -nare | -nare |
| Tar- | -tara | -tari -to |
-tari | -taru | -tare | -tare |
The newly developed tar- inflections are used in kanbun kundoku (reading a Chinese text in Japanese).
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