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Japanese Parts of Speech / 日本語の品詞 - 04-25-2009, 01:17 AM

I made this up as a list for my students and the other teachers at my junior high school. I designed it, of course, from a TEFL standpoint, but it should still be helpful in the other direction.

It is set up as follows: English part of speech, romaji Japanese part of speech, kanji part of speech, description of the kanji in English in their order.

Noun meishi 名詞 (name word)
Verb doushi  動詞 (moving word)
Adjective keiyoshi  形容詞 (form and figure word)
Adverb fukushi  副詞 (secondary word)
Particle kanshi  冠詞 (crown word)
Pronoun daimeishi  代名詞 (substitute name word)
Interjection kantoushi  間投詞 (interval tossed word)
Auxiliary Verb joshi  助詞 (helping word)
Preposition zenchishi  前置詞 (before position word)
Conjunction setsuzokushi 接続詞 (combine/continue word)

Please note that in English, we generally only recognise eight parts of speech: verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, interjection, preposition, and conjunction. However, particles and auxiliary verbs, although subsets of other parts of speech, are unique enough in usage to require a translation into Japanese.

I hope this helps someone. I figure, share the wealth.
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