Japanese Punctuation (Bouten?)

Yzlot · 1 Jul 2013

I was reading a book in Japanese, ang came across this sentence: まあ、気難しがり屋さん! To the right of が and り, where the furigana is normally found, was a japanese comma (、). I had read somewhere that this was called a bouten, though I couldn't find any sources that could confirm this. I assume it's used for emphasis, but how might this differ from using something like wakiten?

Also, could someone confirm what exactly がり is used for in the sentence? I can't figure how exactly "まあ、気難しい屋さん!" is different from "まあ、気難しがり屋さん!"?

Many thanks!

thomas · 1 Jul 2013

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Yzlot · 1 Jul 2013

Link appreciated, but does hold the information needed to answer my question.

Toritoribe · 1 Jul 2013

Yzlot said:
I was reading a book in Japanese, ang came across this sentence: まあ、気難しがり屋さん! To the right of が and り, where the furigana is normally found, was a japanese comma (、). I had read somewhere that this was called a bouten, though I couldn't find any sources that could confirm this. I assume it's used for emphasis, but how might this differ from using something like wakiten?

傍点[bouten] and 脇点[wakiten] are basically the same. They are both used for emphasis, as you understand correctly.

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Yzlot said:
Also, could someone confirm what exactly がり is used for in the sentence? I can't figure how exactly "まあ、気難しい屋さん!" is different from "まあ、気難しがり屋さん!"?

Have you learned a suffix ～がる which is attached to an adjective or a noun, meaning "to feel / pretend / act as~"? がり is the noun usage of the -masu stem of it.

It should be 気難し屋, not 気難しい屋, since 屋 is attached to a noun.

Yzlot · 1 Jul 2013

Ooh thanks for the link toritoribe. I wasn't quite sure how bouten was written, so I wasn't able to find a japanese reference. And I had never heard/seen garu used before, so it's nice to learn something new, besides kanji.

It should be 気難し屋, not 気難しい屋, since 屋 is attached to a noun.

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say 屋 is attached to a noun. Isn't さん simply an added honorific? And when describing nouns with an -i adjective, you keep the -i ending unless further modifications are made.

Toritoribe · 1 Jul 2013

The stem of some adjectives can work as a noun, as same as the -masu stem of a verb, for instance, 高低 can be read たかひく(not so common, though). 気難し is exactly the case.

屋 is a suffix, meaning "a person who has a tendency of~" here. さん is nothing to do with this topic.

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