Speech & General Linguistics
| Welcome to the Parts of Speech in Japanese. Click on the English to link to a video of the phrase. |
| Parts of Speech | ||
|---|---|---|
| English | Romaji | Japanese |
| Parts of speech | hinshi | 品詞 |
| verb | doushi | 動詞 |
| noun | meishi | 名詞 |
| pronoun | daimeishi | 代名詞 |
| personal pronoun | ninshou dai meishi | 人称代名詞 |
| i adjective | keiyoushi | 形容詞 |
| na adjective | keiyoudoushi | 形容動詞 |
| adverb | fukushi | 副詞 |
| conjunction | setsuzokushi | 接続詞 |
| particle | joshi | 助詞 |
| counter | josuushi | 助数詞 |
| interjection | kandoushi | 感動詞 |
| General Linguistic Terms | ||
| English | Romaji | Japanese |
| sentence | bun | 文 |
| word/language | kotoba | 言葉 |
| grammar | bunpou | 文法 |
| word / vocabulary | tango | 単語 |
| vocabulary / glossary | goi | 語彙 |
| language | gengo | 言語 |
