いぜんけい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いぜんけい – see the following entry.

[noun] (grammar) a verbal inflectional category; the realis form as used in classical Japanese, which indicates that something is already the case, or in the process of happening. This form has evolved into the conditional form in modern Japanese without phonemic change.

(This term, いぜんけい, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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