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List of Verbal Suffixes

Appearance: 1) げ after 連用; 2) ごとし after 連体

Causative: 1) す after 未然 (四段,ラ,ナ); さす after 未然 (other Classes);
2) しむ after 未然;

Concessive: が after 連体

Concessive: “although,” “but” ど after 已然; ども after 已然; を after 終止

Conditional: “if”: ば after 未然

Conjecture: べかる/べし/めり/らし/ らむ after 終止; まし after 未然; む after 未然

Continuative: つつ after 連用

Copula: “is” たり/なり after 連体; たり after 連用

Desiderative: たし after 連用; な after 未然; まほし after 未然; もがな after 連用

Emphatic: な after 未然

Hearsay: なり after 終止

Honorific: 1) る after 未然 (四段,ラ,ナ); らる after 未然 (other Classes); 2) す after 未然
(四段,ラ,ナ); さ (す) after 未然 (other Classes); 3) しむ after 未然

Hortatory: むとす after 未然

Hypothetical: ばや after 已然; ばや after 未然

Interrogative:じ after 未然

Negative: ざる after 未然; ず after 未然; まじ after 終止

Negative Conjecture: じ after 未然

Negative Imperative: な after 終止; な ~ そ after 連用

Negative Potential: “unable”: あへず(敢) after 連用

Optative: なむ after 未然

Passive: る after 未然 (四段,ラ,ナ); らる after 未然 (other Classes)

Past Conjecture: けらし after 連用

Past Copula: けむ after 連用

Past Copula: けむ after

Past: き after 連用; けらし after 連用; けり after 連用

Perfect: (四)り after 已然; たり after 連用; つ after 連用; ぬ after 連用; り after 未然

Plural: あふ(合) after 連用

Potential: る after 未然 (四段,ラ,ナ); らる after 未然 (other Classes)

Resultative: “because” ほどに after 連体; を after 終止; ば after 已然

Rhetorical Question: ばや after 未然; ばや after 已然

Subjunctive: せば after 連用

Temporal: “while”: ほどに after 連体

Wish: ばや after 已然; ばや after 未然

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