Four letter words

[keatonatron]

Does anyone know of an online list of 4-character adverbs (the ones that often come in the form ○っ○○)?

Like:
たっぷり
しっかり
ぴったり
すっきり
じっと

I often have a hard time keeping them all straight, and I need to study them for a test this weekend... Of course, it's hard to study if you don't know which ones exist--and I'm not about to go through the dictionary trying out random combinations

[prep_girl_Nessa]

Is that some kind of special adverb? It's kinda weird that you would be expected to know that and not know which ones they are, or even if such a list exist, and still have a test. It sounds like someone's teacher is a bit lazy.

Or maybe I just don't know what this is and it's really some grammer point I totally missed. Probably that.

[paul_b]

keatonatron wrote:
Does anyone know of an online list of 4-character adverbs (the ones that often come in the form ○っ○○)?

Like:
たっぷり
しっかり
ぴったり
すっきり
じっと

Since when is じっと four characters?

Anyway this is the sort of question that databases are made for. There are 146 adverbs in Edict in the form ○っ○○

あっさり
あったら
いっかい
いっかど
いっきに
いっきょ
いっけん
いっこう
いっこく
いっさい
いっしゅ
いっしょ
いっしん
いっせい
いっせき
いっそう
いっそく
いったい
いったん
いってき
いってに
いってん
いっとき
いっぱい
いっぱし
いっぱつ
いっぴつ
いっぺん
いっぽう
うっかり
うっすら
うっそう
うっとり
おっかけ
おっつけ
かくかく
かっかく
かっかと
がっかり
がっくり
がっしり
かっちり
がっちり
かってに
がっぷり
きっかり
ぎっしり
きっちり
ぎっちり
きっぱり
くっきり
ぐっすり
ぐったり
げっかに
けっこう
けっして
げっそり
げったん
こくこく
こっこく
こっそり
ごっそり
ごっちゃ
こってり
さっこん
さっさと
さっそう
さっそく
さっぱり
しっかい
しっかり
じっくり
じっさい
すかっと
すっかり
すっきり
すっくと
ずっしり
すっぱり
すっぽり
せっかく
せっせと
ぜったい
そっくり
そっこく
ぞっこん
たっぷり
ちっとも
てっきり
どっかと
どっかり
どっきり
ドッキリ
とっくに
とっさに
どっさり
どっしり
とっても
とっとと
とっぷり
どっぷり
にっこり
にっせき
ねっから
はっきり
ぱっくり
はっしと
ばったり
ばっちり
ぱっちり
びっくり
ビックリ
ひっしに
びっしり
ひっせい
ひっそり
ぴったり
ひとかど
ひとくさ
ひとふで
ふっくら
べっして
べったり
ぺったり
ぽっかり
ぽっきり
ぽっくり
ほっこり
ほっそり
ぽってり
まっすぐ
まったく
まっぴら
みっちり
むっつり
めっきり
めったに
めっぽう
もっこん
もっとも
もっぱら
やっとこ
やっぱり
ゆっくり
ゆったり
よっぽど

[clay]

That would be a nice vocab list for the Wiki (or as an article)

Since when is じっと four characters?

Only when you are really staring:
じ　〜　っと

[Mike Cash]

Add もっこり

[two_heads_talking]

やっはり is also one

looking through that list it had the origin やはり without the っ. now, maybe age is catching up with me, but I could have sworn both やっはり and やっぱり were the same with the exception of the coloquialization.. or maybe once again, i learned tohokuben and not real japanese.. doh!

[paul_b]

Mike Cash wrote:
Add もっこり

I'm impressed.

That is in Edict but it doesn't have an adv tag. It should do though - I've submitted an amendment.

[flammable hippo]

Hhmm, try this site. It has an entire article about these adverbs and the author gives a whole bunch of examples and shows how to use them to.

http://www.timwerx.net/language/sp_adverbs.htm

[paul_b]

two_heads_talking wrote:
やっはり is also one

looking through that list it had the origin やはり without the っ. now, maybe age is catching up with me, but I could have sworn both やっはり and やっぱり were the same with the exception of the coloquialization.. or maybe once again, i learned tohokuben and not real japanese.. doh!

やっはり has reasonable absolute yahoo.co.jp hits (34,000) but is massively overwhelmed by やはり and やっぱり.

[the_haunted_boy]

When I saw this topic that sayed "Four letter words" I was thnking something else.

[Harisenbon]

Goth_Guy wrote:
When I saw this topic that sayed "Four letter words" I was thnking something else.

me too..

七転八起
自画自賛
自業自得
等

[keatonatron]

paul_b wrote:
Since when is じっと four characters?

The "often" in "the ones that often come in the form ○っ○○" was supposed to apply for the "4-letter" bit too. じっと is similar to the others in that it is not made of kanji and it really describes the way something is done, unlike よく or また.

prep_girl_Nessa wrote:
It sounds like someone's teacher is a bit lazy.

I don't have a teacher.

It's for an entrance exam. I took a practice test, and there were a few questions where I had to choose the appropriate adverb like those above, and the choices were all ones I hadn't heard before

Thanks for the list Paul. Can you search for patterns like that over the web, or did you do it with the downloaded file?

[paul_b]

keatonatron wrote:
Thanks for the list Paul. Can you search for patterns like that over the web, or did you do it with the downloaded file?

That was from a downloaded file, in a database after some processing. Is that enough to keep you busy or should I hunt up 3 character ones when I have the chance?

[keatonatron]

Are there very many 3-character ones? If it's as easy as typing *っ* into your database query program, I sure wouldn't mind the list of 3-character ones

[paul_b]

keatonatron wrote:
Are there very many 3-character ones? If it's as easy as typing *っ* into your database query program, I sure wouldn't mind the list of 3-character ones

It's not quite _that_ simple but here they are.

あっと
いっし
いっそ
いっぽ
おって
かっか
かっこ
かって
かつて
かっと
きっと
ぐっと
けっか
けっく
こっか
さっと
ざっと
じっと
すっと
そっと
ぞっと
たった
ちっと
どこか
どっか
どっと
ぬっと
のっと
はっと
ぱっと
ふっと
ほっと
ぽっと
むっと
もっか
もっと
やっと
やっぱ
やはり
わっと