なに
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Pronoun
- 何: interrogative pronoun; what
- c. late 9th-mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari:
- これを見て、舟より下りて、「山の名を何（なに）とか申」と問ふ。女答へていはく、「これは蓬萊の山なり」と答ふ。
- Seeing this, having gotten off the ship, he asked "What do you call this mountain?" The woman answered, "This is the Hōrai mountain".
- c. late 9th-mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari:
- なに仰る。いま金すこしにこそあなれ。かならずをくるべき物にこそあなれ。
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
References
- Sakakura, Atsuyoshi with Yūichi Ōtsu, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Toshiko Abe, and Imai Gen'e (1957) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 9: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Yamato Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN.
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