special effects (abbr. 特撮 (とくさつ, tokusatsu))

(film, audio or video recording) special effects

special forces

(Japanese phonology) a mora that is variously dubbed in English "special mora" (literal translation), "non-syllabic mora" (by Kubozono Haruo), "non-head mora", or "deficient mora" (by Laurence Labrune), and that is unique in that it cannot form a 音節 (onsetsu, “syllable”) on its own, that it never occurs at the beginning of a word, and that is incapable of acting as an アクセント核 (akusento-kaku, “accent kernel”); morae like these include the 促音 (sokuon, “moraic obstruent”), the 撥音 (hatsuon, “moraic nasal”), the second half of a 長音 (chōon, “long vowel”), and the second half of a 二重母音 (nijū boin, “diphthong”)

(grammar) a -na adjective: specific to Japanese grammar, an adjective with an attributive form that ends in な (-na)

(grammar) separable verb

(grammar) reflexive verb

a regular verb

(grammar) a potential verb (indicates that something is possible)

a free Japanese verb (自立語 (jiritsugo)) that can be grammaticalized by being attached to an inflectional form of another 用言 (yōgen, “inflected word”)