Word Meaning 不定
不定 is read as ふじょう (fujou) and means uncertainty.
Meaning
English
- uncertainty
- insecurity
- inconstancy
- indefinite
- undecided
Reading
Kana
ふじょう
Romaji
fujou
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Related Vocabulary
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6船長は、スケジュールが不定だった。
The ship's captain had no schedule in particular.
toのつかない不定詞を原形不定詞と言う。
An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive.
次の動詞はto不定詞だけを目的語にとります。
The following verbs only take the to-infinitive as their object.
needless to sayは不定詞の慣用表現として紹介されることが多いです。
'Needless to say' is often used as an idiomatic expression in the infinitive.
不定詞の形容詞的用法には2種類あり、①限定用法、②叙述用法。②はもちろん主格補語です。
There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.
動詞helpはto不定詞・原形不定詞の両方をとりますが、くだけた文体では原形不定詞が多いとされており、この例文でもそれが使われています。
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.