主部

Reading

Kana: しゅぶ
Romaji: shubu
Kana
Romaji

Definition

1

main part; complete subject; grammatical subject

(Linguistics terminology)

Kanji

Readings: シュ、 ス、 シュウ、 ぬし、 おも、 あるじ
Meanings: lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
Readings: ブ、 -べ
Meanings: section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine

Example Sentence

主部(しゅぶ)」とは、(ぶん)(なか)動作(どうさ)をする(ひと)(もの)で、日本語(にほんご)(なお)した場合(ばあい)に「~は」「~が」になる部分(ぶぶん)です。
➥The "subject" is the person or object to carry out the action in the sentence. Transformed to Japanese it would be the part that end in "wa" or "ga".
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