@TrevorAlexander For this particular 助動詞, き is the 終止形 and し is the 連体形. That's the opposite of what you get with classical adjective conjugation, where 〜し is the 終止形 and 〜き is the 連体形. — user1478 Feb 16 '14 at 4:34
I suspect I am not understanding this correctly but snail's comment seems to contradict the answer...
> It is from 'classical' grammar, or rather Early Middle Japanese. -し is the 連体形 (the 'attributive' form, used to modify nouns) of the past tense marker -き.
oh yeah @Chocolate I've been wondering, is ですかね a Kansai dialect thing or is it also valid in Tokyo dialect
also Eddie is the "related posts" finder shit when I'm posting questions? I swear this is the second time I've posted something and someone immediately finds something with my exact question
I am stumped by 「仕方なくです」 which I have heard/seen occasionally.
用があり仕方なく広島へ。。。仕方なくですね (source)
一年ぶりに来ました。友人に行きたいと言われて仕方なくですが、、、鶏皮は一人5本に減ってました。(source)
仕方なくです!(笑) (source)
I know 形容詞の連用形 く, apart from its usage preceding 体言, is also used in 中止法. But why can it occur before the copula/polite m...
Chat is shared across all the SE sites, so sometimes the interface here can be a little confusing regarding who it shows is a mod. (Eddie is a mod on ELL, not JLSE.) That said at the moment it's showing me the correct diamonds for the JLSE perspective, so maybe my recollection of mod confusion is from an older version of the interface.