不定詞 – vocab dash

不ふ定てい詞し

Meanings

Noun

1. infinitive

Kanji used

Pitch accent

ふていし

Composed of

unsettled; uncertain; indefinite; unfixed; variable; irregular; changeable; indeterminate

No-adjective

words; writing; lyrics; ci (form of Chinese poetry); independent word

Noun

Examples3

needlesstosayは不ふ定てい詞しの慣かん用よう表ひょう現げんとして紹しょう介かいされることが多おおいです。

'Needless to say' is often used as an idiomatic expression in the infinitive.

toのつかない不ふ定てい詞しを原げん形けい不ふ定てい詞しと言いう。

An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.

不ふ定てい詞しの形けい容よう詞し的てき用よう法ほうには２種しゅ類るいあり、①限げん定てい用よう法ほう、②叙じょ述じゅつ用よう法ほう。②はもちろん主しゅ格かく補ほ語ごです。

There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.