NINJAL releases the "Japanese Sentence Pattern Bank," compiling about 800 Japanese expressions

Explanation

On July 6, 2026, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) released the "Japanese Sentence Pattern Bank," a database compiling Japanese grammatical patterns (sentence patterns). It contains about 800 entries in total, focusing on expressions such as "~tabakari da" and "~ni hokanaranai," whose usage distinctions are difficult to grasp from textbooks and dictionaries alone. For each sentence pattern, the meaning, usage, and example sentences are compiled, and the resource is expected to be useful not only for foreign learners of Japanese but also for Japanese language teachers and for designing Japanese language lessons.