Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
棄てる

Etymology edit

From 下二段 (shimo nidan) verb 捨つ (sutsu).

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "捨てる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
捨てる てる [sùtérú]
Imperative (命令形) 捨てろ てろ [sùtéró]
Key constructions
Passive 捨てられる てられる [sùtérárérú]
Causative 捨てさせる てさせる [sùtésásérú]
Potential 捨てられる てられる [sùtérárérú]
Volitional 捨てよう てよ [sùtéyóꜜò]
Negative 捨てない てない [sùténáí]
Negative perfective 捨てなかった てなかった [sùténáꜜkàttà]
Formal 捨てます てま [sùtémáꜜsù]
Perfective 捨てた てた [sùtétá]
Conjunctive 捨てて てて [sùtété]
Hypothetical conditional 捨てれば てれ [sùtéréꜜbà]

Verb edit

()てる (suterutransitive ichidan (stem () (sute), past ()てた (suteta))

  1. to throw away
    ゴミ()てる
    gomi o suteru
    to throw away garbage
  2. to abandon
    ()(たい)()てる
    shitai o suteru
    to abandon a corpse
  3. to desert; to jilt
    反乱(はんらんぐん)()傷兵(しょうへい)()てて撤退(てったい)した
    Hanrangun wa fushōhei o sutete tettai shita.
    The rebel forces deserted the wounded and retreated.

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.