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01-24-2011, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
I don't know what else to call it. Conjunctive form? I think we English speakers at my Japanese university would refer to it as "pre-masu form."
I've always called it a "Stem" (語幹?)
I say that because I think the Japanese word was something like 動詞語幹 but I can't really remember if that was correct or not.
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