Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
拔く (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "抜く"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
抜く [nùkú]
Imperative (命令形) 抜け [nùké]
Key constructions
Passive 抜かれる かれる [nùkárérú]
Causative 抜かせる かせる [nùkásérú]
Potential 抜ける ける [nùkérú]
Volitional 抜こう [nùkóꜜò]
Negative 抜かない かない [nùkánáí]
Negative perfective 抜かなかった かなかった [nùkánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 抜きます きま [nùkímáꜜsù]
Perfective 抜いた いた [nùítá]
Conjunctive 抜いて いて [nùíté]
Hypothetical conditional 抜けば [nùkéꜜbà]

Verb edit

() (nukutransitive godan (stem () (nuki), past ()いた (nuita))

Japanese verb pair
active 抜く
mediopassive 抜ける
  1. to extract (something), to take out
    ()()
    ha o nuku
    to pull a tooth
  2. to omit, to take out
    Synonym: はぶく (habuku)
    ヨナ()音階(おんかい)
    yo-na-nuki onkai
    musical scale omitting fa or ti
  3. to surpass
    • 2007, 新時代日漢辭典新时代日汉辞典 (Xīn Shídài Rì-hàn Cídiǎn), 1st edition, 大新書局大新书局 (Dàxīn Shūjú), →ISBN:
      トーナメントで五人(ごにん)()いて優勝(ゆうしょう)した
      tōnamento de gonin nuite yūshōshita
      Surpassed five others in a tournament and won
  4. to disconnect a cable/wire
  5. (slang) to masturbate

Derived terms edit

Suffix edit

() (-nuku

  1. to do (something) all the way to the end, to carry through

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN