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nakanaka / -naku 2 1 1
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(In Tokyo it was 37 degrees in the daytime, and it was very hot.)
The sentences in [2] show that kekko and kanari indicate a relatively high
degree, wheareas, toterno and taihen indicate an absolutely high degree.
Kekkd and toterno are more colloquial than kanari and taihen, respectively.

-naku a < inflectional ending <w>

not - and; not - but
written Japanese (to indicate a rea- [REL. -zu]
son I cause for what follows if nai
is attached to Adj(i 1 na) and con-
trast if it is attached to N + Copula)

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(The Japanese final examination was not very hard, and I felt relieved.)

(My research area is not modem history, but ancient history.)