mabataki-o suru

Language: Japanese (standard)

Contributors: Hideki Kishimoto and Taro Kageyama

Complex verb

Verb meaning: BLINK [blink]

Comment: The noun mabataki 'a blink' is derived from the verb mabataku 'blink (one's eyes)', which sounds poetic or archaic in contemporary Japanese.

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1-nom V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 blinker NP-nom S
Examples for basic coding frame:
(50)

Mari-ga mabataki-o si-ta.
Mari-ga
Mari-nom
mabataki-o
blink-acc
si-ta
do-past
Mari blinked.

Alternations

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