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Past tense of なし in Classical Japanese?
Is it なしかりたらず as a usual し adjective? Or is it something weirder? I need this for a skit.
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Casual speech particles in Classical Japanese
I'm writing a simple Japanese skit for our JAPAN 112R class and there is a place where an ancient samurai needs to speak a few sentences of Classical Japanese. I can mostly make the sentences, but it ...
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What function did あり perform in classical Japanese 形容詞?
In classical Japanese, many uses of 形容詞{けいようし} had あり "embedded" in them, e.g.:
熱からず = 「熱し」の連用形＋「あり」の未然形{みぜんけい}＋「ず」
熱かりたり = 「熱し」の連用形＋「あり」の連用形{れんようけい}＋「たり」
熱かれ = 「熱し」の連用形＋「あり」の命令形{めいれいけい}
熱かる人 = ...
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How wrong is my constructed poem?
I tried writing a classical Japanese poem:
赤き空
青かりたり根
夢がごとし
元を返るべし
汚さざらまし
And here is a rough literal translation:
The red sky,
The origin that was once blue,
Like seeing a dream,
It would be best ...
