What does "bigrade" mean?

Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese, so called due to their use of two vowels (grades or rows on the gojūon chart).

Bigrade

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Adjective

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Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese, so called due to their use of two vowels (grades or rows on the gojūon chart). not-comparable

Etymology

From bi- + grade. Compare Japanese 二段 (nidan).

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