Timeline for What is the difference between the negative forms -ず and -ぬ?
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| Nov 18, 2015 at 1:14 | comment | added | Nate Glenn | I wrote the original usage from classical Japanese, and this is the proper usage you will see in poetry, hymns, etc. written in classical style. Sentence-ending ぬ is not good classical Japanese (except for when the described noun is elided, which was pretty common). The use of ぬ as a replacement for ない is again a different style, still with an old feel to it but not classical Japanese, and not grammatically switched out for ず. Axioplase illustrates it well; you will hear this usage a lot during dramatic anime scenes, etc. | |
| Nov 17, 2015 at 11:29 | history | edited | macraf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2015 at 11:28 | comment | added | macraf | "remember this: ず can end a sentence, but ぬ can't" ...that's rather untrue. Even the other answer gives correct examples of sentences ending with ぬ. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 1:06 | comment | added | Eiríkr Útlendi | Re: conjugations, those are essentially contractions of ず + conjugations of ある. This is similar to what appear to be conjugated forms of adjectives, such as よからず (from よく + あらず) or よかろう (from よく + あろう), where the following ある fused with the preceding mora. | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 7:47 | history | edited | Nate Glenn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2013 at 4:30 | comment | added | Nate Glenn | Generally, yes. に occurs very commonly with it (before, not after). | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 8:31 | comment | added | Pacerier | When you say "used as an adverbial" do you mean it must always come after a "に" ? | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 2:58 | vote | accept | Lukman | ||
| Jun 2, 2011 at 2:41 | comment | added | istrasci | [It had conjugations, too, but those are really really rare now (ざら、ざり、ざる、ざれ、ざれ).] The verb pattern ～ざるを得ない is still quite common. [Of course they've snuck into idioms] Don't forget 親知らず (wisdom teeth) | |
| Jun 1, 2011 at 5:18 | history | answered | Nate Glenn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |