Il8 THE ADJECTIVE.
I. Those in beki, corresponding to our phrases with " must" or "should," or to our adjectives in " ......... ble,"
and already noticed on p. 109 as being used only attribu- tively. It is to verbs that beki is suffixed. In the first conjugation beki follows the present tense, as aru-beki, "should be," "necessary." In the second and third con- jugations it follows the indefinite form, as tabe-beki, "eatable;" deki-beki, "possible;" not taberu-beki, deki- ru-beki. In the Written Language beki is suffixed to what is termed the " conclusive form " of the present tense, i.e. a short form ending in u without a following ru and chiefly employed to round off sentences, thus : tabu- beki, (i)deku-beki ; and this use is still sometimes heard in the Colloquial. It is the rule in the case of the irregular verbs kuru and suru, which always make ku-beki and su- beki. The verb mint is peculiar, making either miru-beki or mi-be ki. The following examples are chosen from among a large number :
Su-beki koto. A thing to be done.
thing.
Shinzu-beki koto. A credible thing.
Xtelicvc-mttst thing.
/Are there no places 2. "IT worth .coking at .beki tokoro ga gozaimasen &a?jin this neigh bour-
shonld places (nom.) arc-not ? hood ?
Omae no kamau-beki
yon of maidic-shonM I is none of your koto de nai. (familiar) [business.
thing in-Hot
Kore wa muko ye yarn-} _ . . /. ...
TM as-lor, opposite to send- I This IS a thing which
beki mono desu. j must be sent there.
HI list tMng is
