こくご
Meanings
Noun
1. national language
2. Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan)
3. one's native language; mother tongue
4. native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords and Chinese-derived words)
Pitch accent
こ
くご
Used in vocabulary (20 in total)
foreign language
Japanese-language dictionary; dictionary of a national language
Korean (language; esp. as spoken in South Korea)
counter for languages
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan)
modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)
Japanese language education (for Japanese people); teaching of Japanese
Japanese-language dictionary; dictionary of a national language
one's native language; one's mother tongue
Japanese philology; Japanese linguistics
Japanese language (as a school subject in Japan)
each language; every language
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; NINJAL; Kokken
Society for the Study of Japanese Language
both languages
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; NINJAL; Kokken
kana orthography (esp. historical) of native Japanese words
issues pertaining to a nation's script (e.g. standardization of kanji in Japanese)
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Examples (6 in total)
He likes Japanese, and he's good at it.
Mary has finished her Japanese assignment.
I passed a test in Japanese.