I came across the above the other day. And I couldn't work out what form of verb くれ is. I understand the imperatives of くれる is くれろ or くるよ or くれなさい. So what is the truncated くれ? Thanks!
Thanks a lot! I am unable to find out how verbs of this rude and crude form is conjugated. Would you happen to be able to point me to some resources available on the Internet. Thanks again.
Thanks! I was looking for resources in English. With my limited capabilities in Japanese language, the given text seems to be reverse-engineering how くれ comes about. No conjugation rule is set out at all.
When I heard the Issa haiku for the first time, くれろ sounded rather strange to me, as if it's a rural dialect or something. It's so uncommon that much.
If くれろ is only obsolete in direct speech, but not in indirect speech, as you said, I would explain it instead of just saying "くれろ is obsolete". Don't you think so?
As you might already know, ［文］ means 文語, i.e., classical Japanese, and く・る means it's the classical form of くれる. (Incidentally, "・" between く and る shows that く is the stem of the verb.) Thus, ラ行下二段活用 is the conjugation type of the classical verb くる.
Thanks a lot for your help! I did manage to guess 下一 and 下二, but I wasn't sure about 動ラ. Thanks for your clarification.
I vaguely remember ages ago when I started to learn Japanese from reading books written in Chinese from Taiwan. There were 上二段活用，下二段活用 and 四段活用. For some reason when I started to pick up where I left off from books written in English recently I can only see verbs classifies in ichidan and godan. The same I can see in Japanese-English dictionaries these days. I believe they all refer to the same verbs we are learning. I'm curious to know why was the change if you don't mind. Thanks!