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jmdict 1314050 Active (id: 2079331)
事前 [news1,nf03]
じぜん [news1,nf03]
1. [adj-no]
《often as 事前に》
▶ prior
▶ beforehand
▶ in advance
▶ before the fact
▶ ex ante
Cross references:
  ⇔ see: 1313880 事後 1. after; post; ex-; after the fact; ex post



History:
8. A 2020-08-24 07:54:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
OK. I'll align 事後 (for which 事後の is more common.)
7. A* 2020-08-24 05:11:28  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
PoS tags should be used to express the syntactic function of words.
The syntactic function of 事前 is that it can be used adjectivally with the particle の
and adverbially with the particle に.
The first fact is expressed by the tag [adj-no].
The second fact cannot be expressed with our current PoS system.
Usually such usage is implied by an [adj-na] tag, but this word is not [adj-na].
So we will have to add a note.

As I have explained at some length before, the tag [n-t] should either be abolished or reserved for
temporal nouns that can be used adverbially without attaching the particle に.
The [adv] tag should only be used for adverbs. An adverb is a word that can be used adverbially
(i.e. to modify a verb or adjective) as it is without attaching any particles.
I cannot find any evidence that 事前 is an adverb.
  Diff:
@@ -15,2 +14,0 @@
-<pos>&n-t;</pos>
-<pos>&adv;</pos>
@@ -18,0 +17 @@
+<s_inf>often as 事前に</s_inf>
6. A 2020-08-24 03:07:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Maybe this will work for now. 事後 needs to be aligned.
  Diff:
@@ -15 +15,2 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&n-t;</pos>
+<pos>&adv;</pos>
5. A* 2020-08-23 18:23:33  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
G n-grams:
 事前	12430961
 事前に	 7971624
 事前の	 1251393
 事前で	    5768	
 事前が	     571
 事前を	     485
 事前な	     216
  Comments:
Pos tag [n, adj-no] and mostly adv glosses
N-grams show mostly 事前に but hardly any 事前な.
How do we handle this?
Maybe a note, 'often as 事前に'?
(We could really use an [adv-ni] PoS tag for cases like this.)
4. A 2011-08-04 23:12:58  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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