Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
なが
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "流す"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
流す [nàgáꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 流せ [nàgáꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 流される がされ [nàgásáréꜜrù]
Causative 流させる がさせ [nàgásáséꜜrù]
Potential 流せる がせ [nàgáséꜜrù]
Volitional 流そう がそ [nàgásóꜜò]
Negative 流さない がさない [nàgásáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 流さなかった がさなかった [nàgásáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 流します がしま [nàgáshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 流した した [nàgáꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 流して して [nàgáꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 流せば せば [nàgáꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

(なが) (nagasutransitive godan (stem (なが) (nagashi), past (なが)した (nagashita))

Japanese verb pair
active 流す
mediopassive 流れる
  1. to flow
  2. to release
  3. to cancel
  4. to flush (something) down the toilet
    うんこ(なが)
    unko o nagasu
    to flush a dump down the toilet
  5. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    (ひと)背中(せなか)(なが)
    hito no senaka o nagasu
    to wash someone's back
  6. to play (music)
    BGM(ビージーエム)(なが)
    bī-jī-emu o nagasu
    to play background music
  7. (usually in the passive) to exert influence over someone's immediate actions
    感情(かんじょう)(なが)される
    kanjō ni nagasareru
    to be subservient to one's emotions
    (literally, “to be swept away by emotions”)

Conjugation 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