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述語 (じゅつご) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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せい
だ
」
で
は
、
「
学がく
生せい
だ
」
が
述じゅつ
語ご
です
。
In 'He is a student,' 'is a student' is the predicate.
In Japanese, the predicate often comes at the end of the sentence.
Usage patterns 〈 語ご 〉 が 述じゅつ 語ご になる for a word to function as the predicate (of a sentence)
In this sentence, 'beautiful' functions as the predicate.
主しゅ 語ご と 述じゅつ 語ご が 一いっ 致ち する for the subject and predicate to agree/match
Grammatically, the subject and predicate don't agree.
述じゅつ 語ご を 省しょう 略りゃく する to omit the predicate (in casual or elliptical speech)
In Japanese, the predicate is sometimes omitted in conversation.
Don't confuse with 目的語 is the object that a verb acts upon, whereas 述語 is the verb/adjective/noun-plus-copula that expresses the action or state itself.
述語 (also read じゅつご) is a grammar term meaning 'predicate', completely unrelated in meaning to 術語 'technical term', despite the identical pronunciation.
Word family predicate verb; predicator
predicate noun; predicate nominative
predicate logic; predicate calculus
Etymology From 述 (じゅつ, 'state, mention') + 語 (ご, 'word, language'). A straightforward kanji compound meaning 'predicate word'.
述じゅつ 語ご 形けい 容よう 詞し
