Parts-of-speech
| tag | used for | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | adverb | adverb | | expression | Commonly used expressions or set phrases, of which the meaning is often not related to the word they are made out of. | | が | intransitive verbs | | を | transitive verbs | | noun | nouns | | pronoun | here, I, you, this, etc. Wider than english 'pronoun' | | question-word | 誰、いかが、どう、etc | | い | 形容詞 (i-adjective) | | な | 形容動詞 (な-adjective) | | する | verbal noun, e.g. 勉強する | | の | word that goes with no: の-adjectives, genitival nouns | | に | word that goes with に | | う | 五段 verb (e.g. 放す) | | る | 一段 verb (e.g. 食べる) |
What kind of word?
| tag | used for | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | abbreviation | Words that are abbreviated forms of others | | deceptive-godan | Words ending in る that according to the rules stated in Identifying 五段 verbs should be 一段, but are actually 五段 | | onomatopoeia | 擬音語、擬声語、擬態語 | | written-language | Words that are really only used in written language | | slang | dont use this to your boss |
Speech register
| tag | used for | | -------- | ----------------------------- | | 丁寧語 | | | 関西弁 | Kansai dialect (Osaka, Kyoto) | | 敬語 | | | 尊敬語 | | | 謙譲語 | humble language謙譲語 | | childish | |
その他
| tag | used for | | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ageru-agaru | Words that can go with the auxiliary verbs ageru/agaru to denote fully doing something. See 上げる | | animal | name of an animal species | | era | era names 令和、江戸 etc | | family | words relating to family members | | food | names of foods | | internet | slang used specifically on the internet | | person | name of a type of person, a job that a person can have, etc. | | tradition | words having to do with culture or tradition |