If 休 is read as やすむ then why is 休み read as やすみ? Same thing with 早う. The kanji reads はや but the… - Feed Post by wahaj
If 休 is read as やすむ then why is 休み read as やすみ? Same thing with 早う. The kanji reads はや but the entire thing is read as はよう
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Well, actually the kanji only stands for the "yasu" part. The "mi" and "mu" for that kanji, as well as the "u" part are actually parts of the conjugation of the word. Vocab w/o grammar is hard to explain, but basically, yasumu is the "stem" form, and "yasumi" is a conjugation of it.
ah a conjugation. Thanks
休（やすみ） is a name, 休み（やすみ） is a word.
早（はや）is also a name, while 早う is also a word.- does anyone know a good resource on conjugations? At the moment I am just memorizing words the way I see them but I don't know how far that will get me.
- @wahaj Tae Kim
- I didn't that site had conjugations on it. Thank you
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The はよう one is more interesting and complicated. You probably still won't understand that one after reading Tae Kim's guide. :P
JCJP doesn't teach grammar, however it does like to try to expose you to a vast variety of different and obscure grammatical constructions. ^^
Normally 早う (はよう) would be seen as 早く (はやく). はやく is the adverb form conjugation of the adjective はやい. The はよう version is the result of historical sound changes. Also, はよう would be はやう but spelling reform affected the spelling of "~a + u" sound to be rewritten as "~o + u".
