Word Meaning 分詞

ぶんし bunshi

分詞 is read as ぶんし (bunshi) and means participle.

Meaning

English

  1. participle

Reading

Kana

ぶんし

Romaji

bunshi

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 16 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 123171 Priority T

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

分離不定詞

ぶんりふていし

split infinitive

分詞構文

ぶんしこうぶん

participial construction

現在分詞

げんざいぶんし

present participle

過去分詞

かこぶんし

past participle

部分冠詞

ぶぶんかんし

partitive article (e.g. "du" in French)

懸垂分詞

けんすいぶんし

dangling participle

品詞分類

ひんしぶんるい

part-of-speech classification

分担

ぶんたん

taking on one's share (e.g. of work)

分布

ぶんぷ

distribution

分量

ぶんりょう

amount

分冊

ぶんさつ

separate volume

分身

ぶんしん

incarnations of Buddha

Example Sentences

3

In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.

I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?

I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?