Meaning of ｔｏ不定詞(ツーふていし) in Japanese

Reading and JLPT level ｔｏ不定詞

Kana Reading ツーふていし

Romaji tsūfuteishi

Examples of ｔｏ不定詞, ツーふていし in a sentence

次の動詞はｔｏ不定詞だけを目的語にとります。

The following verbs only take the to-infinitive as their object.
動詞helpはto不定詞・原形不定詞の両方をとりますが、くだけた文体では原形不定詞が多いとされており、この例文でもそれが使われています。

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

詞 JLPT 2

12 strokes

part of speech, words, poetry

On'Yomi: シ

Kun'Yomi:

不 JLPT 4

4 strokes

negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy

On'Yomi: フ, ブ

Kun'Yomi:

定 JLPT 3

8 strokes

determine, fix, establish, decide

On'Yomi: テイ, ジョウ

Kun'Yomi: さだ.める, さだ.まる, さだ.か

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