上一段活用

A compound of 上一段 (kami ichidan, “upper single grade”) and 活用 (katsuyō, “conjugation”). Upper bigrade verbs regularly become upper monograde. The "upper" notation refers to the -i stem which comes before the "lower" -e in Japanese order.

• Yutōyomi
  • (Tokyo) かみいちだんか​つよー [kàmí íchídáń káꜜtsùyòò] (Nakadaka – [7])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠mʲi it͡ɕidã̠ŋ ka̠t͡sɨᵝjo̞ː]

上一段活用 (hiragana かみいちだんかつよう, rōmaji kami ichidan katsuyō, historical hiragana かみいちだんくわつよう)

1. (grammar) upper monograde conjugation; a verbal conjugation class in which the verb stem ends in -i and the various inflections are -/-/ru/ru/re/[yo, ro]. Examples:

• 五段活用 (ごだんかつよう) (godan katsuyō)
• カ行変格活用 (ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (kagyō henkaku katsuyō)
• 上二段活用 (かみにだんかつよう) (kami nidan katsuyō)
• ナ行変格活用 (ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (nagyō henkaku katsuyō)
• ラ行変格活用 (ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (ragyō henkaku katsuyō)
• サ行変格活用 (ぎょうへんかくかつよう) (sagyō henkaku katsuyō)
• 下一段活用 (しもいちだんかつよう) (shimo ichidan katsuyō)
• 下二段活用 (しもにだんかつよう) (shimo nidan katsuyō)
• 四段活用 (よだんかつよう) (yodan katsuyō)

• 上二段活用 (かみにだんかつよう) (kami nidan katsuyō)