"んば" meaning in Japanese

See んば in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

IPA: [mba̠] Forms: -nba [romanization]
Etymology: Shift from は (ha). First attested in 平家物語 (Heike Monogatari, “The Tale of the Heike”) of the early 1200s. /-ba/ → /-mba/ The は (ha) was probably originally the topic particle, also used in contrastive emphasis to indicate a conditional in certain constructions. Compare modern なくては (nakute wa). The nasal likely appeared due to the voicing of the negative auxiliary ず (zu) that often preceded the particle in this usage. Over time, this then became conflated with the regular conditional verb suffix ば (ba). Etymology templates: {{ja-r|は}} は (ha), {{ja-r|は}} は (ha), {{ja-r|なくて は}} なくては (nakute wa), {{ja-r|ず}} ず (zu), {{ja-r|ば}} ば (ba) Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix}} んば • (-nba)
  1. (archaic) Alternative form of ば (-ba, “if”) Wikipedia link: Daijirin, Daijisen, The Tale of the Heike, ja:松村明 Tags: alt-of, alternative, archaic Alternative form of: (extra: -ba, “if”)

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for んば meaning in Japanese (2.4kB)

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