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 Definition:  (日本語 Nihongo), Japonic language spoken mostly in Japan; Japonic family's linguistic relationship to other tongues yet to be established, though Japanese may be related to Korean; written in a combination of Chinese-derived characters (漢字 kanji) and native hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) scripts; about 125,000,000 native speakers worldwide. [d] [e]
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Japanese adjectives

About Japanese "adjectives", I wonder if there is another way to call them in English. In the university I study and in the grammar book I use (Grammaire Japonaise systématique, Shimamori Reiko, 1997 edition Jean Maisonneuve, yes it's French...), the word "adjective" is not used because it means this word needs another word to be used ( "ad" ) which is not the case in Japanese. So they call it "prédicat qualificatif" or "mot de qualité". Is there any translation of this concept in English or is it only used in France ? Stéphane C.B. Direz 18:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

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