語尾

Noun

 * 1)  end of a sentence

Noun

 * 1) ending grammar: last morpheme of a word

Usage notes
The segmentation of Japanese verbs into a and  is different in traditional Japanese grammar and modern linguistic analysis.
 * Group I (godan, consonant-stem) verbs have the ending in traditional Japanese grammar, and  in the modern linguistic analysis. Hence  is の・む (no-mu) in the former and nom-u in the latter.
 * Group II (ichidan, vowel-stem) verbs have the ending or  in traditional Japanese grammar, and  in the modern linguistic analysis. Hence  is た・べる (ta-beru) in the former and tabe-ru in the latter. Two-mora verbs such as  cannot be segmented in traditional Japanese grammar.