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連用中止れんようちゅうし

れんようちゅうしren'you chuushiformal

savor + cutting part of a sentence at ます-stem or an adjective's く-form

ajiwai ,

cutting part of a sentence at ます-stem or an adjective's く-form; written

meaning: savor and

Related

  • 味あじわう
  • 〜、
  • 味あじわい、

毎朝まいあさ六時ろくじに味あじわい、七時しちじの電車でんしゃに乗のる。

maiasa rokuji ni ajiwai , shichiji no densha ni noru.

Every morning at six I savor and catch the seven o'clock train. neutral

この道みちは狭せまく、大おおきな車くるまは通とおれない。

kono michi wa semaku, ookina kuruma wa toorenai.

This road is narrow, and large cars cannot get through. neutral

All examples4

and — one part ends and the next follows, in written style

  1. 毎朝まいあさ六時ろくじに起おき、七時しちじの電車でんしゃに乗のる。

    maiasa rokuji ni oki , shichiji no densha ni noru.

    Every morning at six I get up and catch the seven o'clock train. neutral

  2. この道みちは狭せまく、大おおきな車くるまは通とおれない。

    kono michi wa semaku, ookina kuruma wa toorenai.

    This road is narrow, and large cars cannot get through. neutral

  3. 祖父そふは八十歳はちじゅっさいで亡なくなり、祖母そぼは今いまも一人ひとりで暮くらしている。

    sofu wa hachijussai de nakunari, sobo wa ima mo hitori de kurashite iru.

    My grandfather died at eighty, and my grandmother still lives on her own. neutral

  4. 本製品ほんせいひんは国内こくないの工場こうじょうで生産せいさんされ、全国ぜんこくの店舗てんぽに出荷しゅっかされております。

    honseihin wa kokunai no koujou de seisan sare, zenkoku no tenpo ni shukka sarete orimasu.

    This product is manufactured at our domestic plant and shipped to stores nationwide. formal

How it's formed2

Notes

Read aloud it sounds like a pause; speech uses て instead. It carries no tense itself, usually read from the sentence's end (読よみ、出でかけました is one past sentence).