Japanese edit

Alternative spelling
済ます

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "済ます"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
済ます [sùmáꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 済ませ [sùmáꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 済まされる まされ [sùmásáréꜜrù]
Causative 済まさせる まさせ [sùmásáséꜜrù]
Potential 済ませる ませ [sùmáséꜜrù]
Volitional 済まそう まそ [sùmásóꜜò]
Negative 済まさない まさない [sùmásáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 済まさなかった まさなかった [sùmásáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 済まします ましま [sùmáshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 済ました した [sùmáꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 済まして して [sùmáꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 済ませば せば [sùmáꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

すます (sumasutransitive godan (stem すまし (sumashi), past すました (sumashita))

  1. to finish, to end, to settle
  2. to repay
  3. to make do with
Conjugation edit

See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of すます – see the following entry.
澄ます
[verb] to clear; to make something clear
[verb] to wash clean
[verb] to keep calm
[verb] to concentrate one's effort; to focus one's attention
[verb] to pretend as if nothing happened
Alternative spelling
清ます
(This term, すます, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN