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How to use penult in a sentence

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The main characteristic regarding accent in Japanese is that the highest accent is on the penult.
If the ultima is long, and if the penult is accented, then it must be acute.
The first places stress either on the penult of the stem, or on the final syllable.
Stress is placed on the penult if it is long and on the antepenult if the penult is short.
A word bearing the acute upon the ultima is known as an oxytone, one with the acute upon the penult as a paroxytone, one with the acute upon the antepenult as a proparoxytone.
Stress moved to the penult if it was heavy or the antepenult in other cases.
He wanted to find out whether informants would stress them on the last syllable or on the penult.
Examples from Classical Literature
When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex.
I am unaware why the accent is on the penult, and not on the ultimate of Willamette.
Worcester's orthography is Hindostanee and Hindostany, but the accent is on the penult as above.
In such words the accent stands upon the penult, even though that be short.
The accent is usually on the penult vowel, sometimes on the last, but never on the antipenult.
This anie eare may if he accent the antepenult matrmonie, or the penult matrimnie, or the last as matrimone.
A word stressed on the penult may assonate with one lx stressed on the antepenult.
The accent must fall on the penult, if it was long, otherwise on the antepenult of the word.
Names on which accents are not placed are accented on the penult.
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