Where does “形容詞” come from?
形容詞 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 詞, from Japanese 自動詞, from Japanese 自動 — automatic movement, automatic functioning;...
形容詞 (Japanese): a word that modifies or describes a noun or...
Definitions
- a word that modifies or describes a noun or...
Ancestry of “形容詞”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 詞 | word; word; part of speech |
| 2 | Japanese | 自動詞 | intransitive verb |
| 3 | Japanese | 自動 | automatic movement, automatic functioning;... |