Jisho

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く 句
Common word JLPT N3 Show 2 collocations Links
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
1. section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph​
  • かれ彼
  • は
  • その
  • く句
  • の
  • もじどお文字どおりの
  • いみ意味
  • を
  • せつめい説明
  • した
    • 。
He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
2. phrase​Linguistics
  • この
  • く句
  • で
  • は
  • ぜんちし前置詞
  • を
  • しょうりゃく省略
  • できる
    • 。
You can omit the preposition in this phrase.
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
3. verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)​
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
4. haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.​
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
5. maxim; saying; idiom; expression​
Noun, Noun, used as a suffix
6. clause (e.g. in a database query language)​Computing
Wikipedia definition
7. Phrase​In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A phrase is lower on the grammatical hierarchy than a clause.
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