終しゅう止し法ほう

noun

sentence-final inflection; terminational mode

In Japanese grammar, the inflectional form that ends a sentence, such as the shūshikei (終止形) in classical Japanese or the dictionary form in modern Japanese.

• 古こ典てん文ぶん法ぽうでは、終しゅう止し法ほうは文ぶんを終おわらせる活かつ用よう形けいを指さす。

  In classical grammar, shūshihō refers to the inflectional form that ends a sentence.

noun

cadence

In music, a melodic or harmonic formula that brings a phrase to a close.

• この楽がく章しょうは完かん全ぜん終しゅう止し法ほうで終おわる。

  This movement ends with a perfect cadence.