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[exp,adj-f]
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《also used adverbially》 ▶ indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.) ▶ unutterable ▶ inexpressable ▶ unspeakable |
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| 5. | A 2025-03-31 06:48:37 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | Very marginal. |
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| 4. | A* 2025-03-30 12:37:34 Sombrero1 | |
| Refs: | taishukan全訳古語: 何とも言いようがないほど甚だしい Shinsen: なんとも言いようがないほどすばらしく。 Both give adjectival glosses but shinsen points out that it is also adverbially. Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーー─┬────┬───────╮ │ えも言はず │ 50 │ 61.0% │ │ えも言はぬ │ 32 │ 39.0% │might just have it here as a search key? The other option would be to have a second entry ╰─ーーーーー─┴────┴───────╯ |
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| Comments: | Doesn't mean "inexplicably" from what I can see. Adj-f might also be appropriate here |
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| Diff: | @@ -5,0 +6,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>えも言はぬ</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -11,0 +16 @@ +<pos>&adj-f;</pos> @@ -13,2 +18,5 @@ -<gloss>inexplicably</gloss> -<gloss>unexplainably</gloss> +<s_inf>also used adverbially</s_inf> +<gloss>indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>unutterable</gloss> +<gloss>inexpressable</gloss> +<gloss>unspeakable</gloss> |
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| 3. | A 2012-05-27 23:22:02 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 2. | A* 2012-05-27 20:32:11 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | koj, daij, nikk, oubunsha kogo jiten. all use the headword えも言はず and indicate that は is pronounced わ here |
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| Comments: | please provide references and an english translation. it's not our duty to translate japanese to english nor estonian to english |
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| Diff: | @@ -5,1 +5,1 @@ -<keb>えも言わず</keb> +<keb>えも言はず</keb> @@ -11,2 +11,4 @@ -<pos>&n;</pos> -<gloss>???</gloss> +<pos>&exp;</pos> +<misc>&arch;</misc> +<gloss>inexplicably</gloss> +<gloss>unexplainably</gloss> |
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| 1. | A* 2012-05-27 06:32:46 | |
| Comments: | sõnul seletamatu |
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