Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
さか
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
榮える (kyūjitai)

Cognate with 盛る (sakaru, to become frisky, to flourish) and 栄す, 盛す (sakasu, to make something lively), ultimately deriving from 咲く (saku, to bloom).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "栄える"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
栄える かえ [sàkáéꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 栄えろ かえ [sàkáéꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 栄えられる かえられ [sàkáéráréꜜrù]
Causative 栄えさせる かえさせ [sàkáésáséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 栄えよう かえよ [sàkáéyóꜜò]
Negative 栄えない かえない [sàkáéꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 栄えなかった かえなかった [sàkáéꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 栄えます かえま [sàkáémáꜜsù]
Perfective 栄えた えた [sàkáꜜètà]
Conjunctive 栄えて えて [sàkáꜜètè]
Hypothetical conditional 栄えれば かえれば [sàkáéꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

(さか)える (sakaeruintransitive ichidan (stem (さか) (sakae), past (さか)えた (sakaeta))

  1. prosper; thrive

Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
榮える (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 栄える – see the following entry.
える
[verb] look attractive, shine
(This term, 栄える, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References edit

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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