#Pitch Accent in Verb Conjugations

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sick forge
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In this example, the word 買う's pitch accent is in Nakadaka. (LHL), but in the example sentence, the word is 買いました, a verb conjugation.
Is the pitch accent just LHLLL, or is that something else entirely?

How does pitch accent work in verb conjugations?

short jackal
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https://youtu.be/clOfEb5Jjp0?si=tAz8qcZlvdy5awrt

Here's a video on what your looking for, also has the same for adjectives and nouns. Hope this helps.

This video covers Japanese pitch accent & verb conjugation. When you identify the accented mora for Japanese words, nouns and na-adjectives are relatively tricky because the accent can fall on any mora. However, when it comes to verbs and i-adjectives, it is not as tricky to identify the accented mora because there’s a rule. In this video, you w...

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