lists: Parts of speech

All kinds of Japanese adjectives

Verbs or nouns acting as an adjective.

Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.

Special case of い(keiyoushi) adjectives that conjugate like いい/よい

Archaic form of adjective no longer used.

Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.

Archaic form of a な adjective no longer used.

Nouns that can be converted into genitive case using the particle の.

Adjectives occurring before nouns and not in a predicative position.

Archaic form of adjective no longer used.

A variant of な adjectives which take たる ending.

Auxiliary adjective

Fukushi adverb coming from adjectives.

Adverb taking the 'to' particle

Noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

Noun, used as a prefix

Noun, used as a suffix

All kinds of Japanese nouns

Auxiliary verb

Ichidan verb

Ichidan verb - kureru special class

All kinds of nidan verbs (archaic)

Nidan verb with 'u' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'bu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'dzu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'gu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'gu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'ku' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'ku' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'mu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'nu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'ru' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'ru' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'su' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'tsu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'tsu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'u' ending and 'we' conjugation (archaic)

Nidan verb (upper class) with 'yu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'yu' ending (archaic)

Nidan verb (lower class) with 'zu' ending (archaic)

All kinds of yodan verbs (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'bu' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'gu' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'ku' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'mu' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'ru' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'su' ending (archaic)

Yodan verb with 'tsu' ending (archaic)

All kinds of godan verbs (archaic)

Godan verb - -aru special class

Godan verb with 'bu' ending

Godan verb with 'gu' ending

Godan verb with 'ku' ending

Godan verb - Iku/Yuku special class

Godan verb with 'mu' ending

Godan verb with 'nu' ending

Godan verb with 'ru' ending

Godan verb with 'ru' ending (irregular verb)

Godan verb with 'su' ending

Godan verb with 'tsu' ending

Godan verb with 'u' ending

Godan verb with 'u' ending (special class)

All kinds of Japanese verbs

Intransitive verb

Kuru verb - special class

Irregular nu verb

Irregular ru verb, plain form ends with -ri

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

Su verb - precursor to the modern suru

Suru verb - included

Suru verb - special class

Transitive verb

Ichidan verb - zuru verb (alternative form of -jiru verbs)

Auxiliary

Word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

Japanese copulas that would most often be translated as one of the so-called be-verbs of English.

Words used along with numbers to count things, actions, and events.

Words or phrases, used to convey an idea.

Spoken or written expressions of emotion.

Numeric

Pronoun

Prefix

Particle

Suffix

Unclassified