Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
うつ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
寫す (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

Cognate with Japanese 移す.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "写す"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
写す [ùtsúꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 写せ [ùtsúꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 写される つされ [ùtsúsáréꜜrù]
Causative 写させる つさせ [ùtsúsáséꜜrù]
Potential 写せる つせ [ùtsúséꜜrù]
Volitional 写そう つそ [ùtsúsóꜜò]
Negative 写さない つさない [ùtsúsáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 写さなかった つさなかった [ùtsúsáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 写します つしま [ùtsúshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 写した した [ùtsúꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 写して して [ùtsúꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 写せば せば [ùtsúꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

(うつ) (utsusutransitive godan (stem (うつ) (utsushi), past (うつ)した (utsushita))

Japanese verb pair
active 写す
mediopassive 写る
  1. to copy
  2. to describe
  3. to picture
  4. to photograph

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ 写す”, in デジタル大辞泉[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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