Closed Konstantin-Glukhov closed 7 years ago
It really is the 未然形 + ない, found still in use in loads of places in Japan outside the Tokyo regions, and still found vestigially as part of many contracted conjugations involving ある, so while I understand why you'd propose this correction, I'd rather keep the fact that ある is very special explicit.
That said, a correction like:
Contractions in the inflections are indicated with (c), standard Japanese indicated with (標準語).
inflection formality affirmative negative
present informal ない (標準語), 未然形 + ない
formal 連用形 + ます 連用形 + ません
would be fine.
thanks for the update - can you also update the line above the table then, to make it clear what the (標準語)
indicator is for?
... while I appreciate the desire for detail, this appendix is not the place to explain what standard Japanese is and how it came to be. That explanation should go in Chapter 1 if you feel the explanation there is lacking. This is just a lookup appendix, so we're purely using (標準語)
as a key here, similar to (c)
, with brief explanation only.
thanks for the help
Replace 未然形 + ない with ない