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attributive form; adnominal form
One of the six traditional conjugation bases (活用形) of Japanese verbs and adjectives: the form that directly modifies a following noun. In modern Japanese this form is identical to the 終止形 for verbs and i-adjectives, but differs for na-adjectives (e.g., 静かな部屋) and the copula.
名詞を修飾するのは連体形です。
The form that modifies a noun is the attributive form.
「静かな」は「静かだ」の連体形です。
"Shizuka na" is the attributive form of "shizuka da."
古文では連体形と終止形が別の形で区別されていた。
In classical Japanese, the attributive form and the terminal form were distinguished as separate forms.
A technical term from traditional Japanese grammar (国文法). Composed of 連体 ("linking to a body [noun]") + 形 ("form"). Functionally, this is the form a predicate takes when it attaches directly to a noun as a modifier.
USAGE:
- For verbs and i-adjectives, the 連体形 is identical in shape to the 終止形 in modern Japanese: 書く人, 高い山.
- For na-adjectives, the 連体形 ends in 〜な: 静かな部屋.
- For the copula だ, the 連体形 is な or (more formally) である.
- Any clause that modifies a noun (a "relative clause") ends in the 連体形.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 連体形に活用する: to conjugate into the attributive form
- 名詞を修飾する連体形: the attributive form that modifies a noun
- 連体修飾: noun modification (by a clause or adjective)
RELATED TERMS:
- 終止形: terminal form — identical in shape for verbs/i-adjectives in modern Japanese
- 連用形: continuative form — modifies verbs/predicates
- 未然形: irrealis form
- 仮定形: hypothetical form
- 命令形: imperative form
- 連体詞: adnominal — a part of speech that only functions attributively (e.g., その, あの)