Title: Japanese: Common linguistic terms

Japanese: 時, 秋, 刻
English: 1. time, hour, moment 名詞
刻 signifies a time of day; 秋 signifies an important time
2. occasion, case
3. chance, opportunity, season
4. the times, the age, the day
5. tense
linguistics terminology
Reading: とき
Slug: 時

Japanese: 受ける, ウケる, 承ける, 享ける, 請ける
English: 1. to receive, to get Ichidan verb、Transitive verb
2. to catch (e.g. a ball)
3. to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
4. to sustain (damage), to incur (a loss), to suffer (an injury), to feel (influence)
5. to undergo (e.g. surgery), to take (a test), to accept (a challenge)
Reading: うける, ウケる
Slug: 受ける

Japanese: 法
English: 1. law, act, principle 名詞、Noun - used as a suffix
2. method
3. mood
linguistics terminology
4. dharma
Buddhist term
Reading: ほう

Japanese: 女性
English: 1. woman, female 名詞、の
2. feminine gender
linguistics terminology
Reading: にょしょう, じょせい

Japanese: 数
English: 1. several, a number of 接頭辞
2. quantity, amount 名詞、Noun - used as a suffix
3. counting, figures, numbers 名詞
4. number, numeral, figure
5. grammatical number
linguistics terminology
Reading: すう
Slug: 数-1

Japanese: 変化
English: 1. change, variation, alteration, mutation, transition, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis 名詞、する動詞
2. variety, diversity 名詞
3. inflection, declension, conjugation 名詞、する動詞
linguistics terminology
4. sidestepping
Sumo term
Reading: へんか

Japanese: 男性
English: 1. man, male 名詞、の
2. masculine gender
linguistics terminology
Reading: だんせい

Japanese: 言語
English: 1. language 名詞
Reading: げんご, げんきょ, ごんご

Japanese: 過去
English: 1. the past, bygone days, the previous 名詞、の
2. a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret), one's past
3. past (tense), preterit, preterite
linguistics terminology
4. previous life
Buddhist term
Reading: かこ

Japanese: 声, 聲
English: 1. voice 名詞
2. singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot
3. voice, opinion (as expressed in words), view, wish, attitude, will
4. sound
5. sense (of something's arrival), feeling
usu. as ～の声を聞く
Reading: こえ
Slug: 声

Japanese: 自動, 自働
English: 1. automatic の、名詞
2. intransitive verb 名詞
linguistics terminology、Abbreviation
Reading: じどう
Slug: 自動

Japanese: 働く
English: 1. to work, to labor, to labour Godan verb with ku ending、自動詞
2. to function, to operate, to be effective, to work (i.e. ... works), to come into play
3. to commit (e.g. a crime), to perpetrate, to do, to act, to practise, to practice
4. to be conjugated
linguistics terminology
Reading: はたらく

Japanese: 節
English: 1. occasion, time 名詞
2. section (of a literary work), paragraph, verse, stanza, passage
3. principle, integrity
4. node (of a plant stem)
5. clause
linguistics terminology
Reading: せつ

Japanese: 主題
English: 1. subject, theme, motif 名詞
Reading: しゅだい

Japanese: 再建
English: 1. rebuilding, reconstruction, rehabilitation 名詞、する動詞
2. protoform reconstruction
linguistics terminology
Reading: さいけん

Japanese: 格
English: 1. status, position, rank 名詞、Noun - used as a suffix
2. method, way, style 名詞
3. rule, regulation, law
4. grammatical case
linguistics terminology
5. figure (syllogism)
Reading: かく

Japanese: 完了
English: 1. completion, conclusion 名詞、する動詞、の
2. perfect (tense, form, aspect) 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: かんりょう

Japanese: 活用
English: 1. practical use, application 名詞、する動詞
2. conjugation, inflection
linguistics terminology
Reading: かつよう

Japanese: 方言
English: 1. dialect 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
Reading: ほうげん

Japanese: 文章
English: 1. writing, composition, essay, article, prose, (writing) style 名詞
2. sentence
Reading: もんじょう, もんぞう, ぶんしょう

Japanese: 単語
English: 1. word, vocabulary, (usually) single-character word 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
Reading: たんご

Japanese: 句
English: 1. section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph 名詞、Noun - used as a suffix
2. phrase
linguistics terminology
3. verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
4. haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
5. maxim, saying, idiom, expression
Reading: く

Japanese: 文法
English: 1. grammar, syntax 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
Reading: ぶんぽう

Japanese: 名詞
English: 1. noun 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: めいし, なことば

Japanese: 自称
English: 1. self-proclaimed, self-professed, self-styled, would-be Noun or verb acting prenominally
2. professing oneself to be, calling oneself, describing oneself as 名詞、する動詞
3. first person 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: じしょう

Japanese: 動詞
English: 1. verb 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
Reading: どうし

Japanese: 係, 係り
English: 1. charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk 名詞
esp. 係
2. connection, linking
linguistics terminology
esp. 係り
Reading: かかり
Slug: 係

Japanese: 代名詞
English: 1. pronoun 名詞
linguistics terminology
2. synonym, classic example, pattern, byword, representative
Reading: だいめいし

Japanese: 語彙, 語い
English: 1. vocabulary, lexicon, lexis, terminology 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: ごい
Slug: 語彙

Japanese: 文脈
English: 1. context 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: ぶんみゃく

Japanese: 品詞
English: 1. part of speech 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: ひんし

Japanese: 中性
English: 1. neutrality (incl. chemical, electrical, etc.), indifference 名詞、の
2. sexlessness, androgyny, androgyne, neuter
3. neuter gender
linguistics terminology
Reading: ちゅうせい

Japanese: 句読点
English: 1. punctuation mark 名詞
Reading: くとうてん

Japanese: 副詞
English: 1. adverb 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
Reading: ふくし

Japanese: 外来語
English: 1. borrowed word, foreign origin word 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: がいらいご

Japanese: 同化
English: 1. assimilation, absorption 名詞、する動詞
2. adaptation
3. assimilation, anabolism
Biology term
4. assimilation (phonology)
linguistics terminology
Reading: どうか

Japanese: 同音
English: 1. homophony, same pronunciation, same sound 名詞、の
linguistics terminology
2. unison, same pitch
Music term
3. (in) one voice, (speaking in) unison
Reading: どうおん

Japanese: 相槌, 合鎚, 相づち, 合づち, 相鎚, 合槌
English: 1. aizuchi, back-channeling, interjections indicating that one is paying attention 名詞
2. two smiths hammering at an object in turn
Reading: あいづち, あいずち
Slug: 相槌

Japanese: 先取り, 先どり, 先取
English: 1. receiving in advance, taking before others 名詞、する動詞
2. prefetch
Computer terminology
3. anticipatory completion, finishing another person's sentence in anticipation of what likely to be said next
linguistics terminology
Reading: さきどり
Slug: 先取り

Japanese: 熟語
English: 1. kanji compound 名詞
linguistics terminology
2. idiom, idiomatic phrase
Reading: じゅくご

Japanese: 書きことば, 書き言葉
English: 1. written word, written language 名詞
Reading: かきことば
Slug: 書き言葉

Japanese: 敬語
English: 1. honorific, term of respect, polite expression, honorific language 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: けいご

Japanese: 話し言葉, 話しことば, 話言葉
English: 1. spoken language, colloquial expression 名詞
Reading: はなしことば
Slug: 話し言葉

Japanese: 打ち消し, 打消, 打消し
English: 1. negation, denial, negative 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: うちけし
Slug: 打ち消し

Japanese: 受け身, 受身
English: 1. the defensive 名詞、の、形容動詞
2. passive attitude, passivity, passiveness
3. the passive, passive voice
linguistics terminology
4. ukemi (the art of falling safely)
Martial arts term
Reading: うけみ
Slug: 受身

Japanese: 分母
English: 1. denominator 名詞
Mathematics
Reading: ぶんぼ

Japanese: 類推
English: 1. analogy 名詞
2. analogical reasoning, analogical inference 名詞、する動詞
3. analogy 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: るいすい

Japanese: 屈折
English: 1. bending, curving, twisting, turning, winding 名詞、する動詞
2. warping (of feelings, logic, etc.), distortion, twisting
3. refraction
4. inflection
linguistics terminology
Reading: くっせつ

Japanese: 断定
English: 1. conclusion, decision, judgement, declaration 名詞、する動詞
2. affirmative 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: だんてい

Japanese: 渡り, ワタリ
English: 1. crossing, passage, transit 名詞
2. importing, import
3. wandering, wanderer
4. migration
5. contact, relations, negotiations
Reading: わたり, ワタリ
Slug: 渡り

Japanese: 約
English: 1. approximately, about 副詞
2. promise 名詞
3. shortening, reduction, simplification
4. contraction (in phonetics)
linguistics terminology
Reading: やく

Japanese: 疑問符
English: 1. question mark 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: ぎもんふ

Japanese: 呼応
English: 1. hailing each other 名詞、する動詞
2. acting in concert, responding (to), sympathizing (with)
3. agreement, concord
linguistics terminology
Reading: こおう

Japanese: 働き
English: 1. work, labor, labour 名詞
2. achievement, performance, ability, talent
3. salary, income, earnings
4. action, activity, workings, function, operation, movement, motion
5. conjugation, inflection
linguistics terminology
also written as 活
Reading: はたらき

Japanese: 形容詞
English: 1. adjective, i-adjective (in Japanese) 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: けいようし

Japanese: 文体
English: 1. literary style 名詞
2. form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)
Reading: ぶんたい

Japanese: 助詞
English: 1. particle, postpositional word in Japanese grammar that functions as an auxiliary to a main word 名詞
linguistics terminology
Reading: じょし