Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
ただよ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
漾う (obsolete)

Etymology edit

/tadajopu//tadajoɸu//tadajou/

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "漂う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
漂う だよ [tàdáyóꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 漂え だよ [tàdáyóꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 漂われる だよわれ [tàdáyówáréꜜrù]
Causative 漂わせる だよわせ [tàdáyówáséꜜrù]
Potential 漂える だよえ [tàdáyóéꜜrù]
Volitional 漂おう だよお [tàdáyóóꜜò]
Negative 漂わない だよわない [tàdáyówáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 漂わなかった だよわなかった [tàdáyówáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 漂います だよいま [tàdáyóímáꜜsù]
Perfective 漂った だよった [tàdáyóꜜttà]
Conjunctive 漂って だよって [tàdáyóꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 漂えば だよえば [tàdáyóꜜèbà]

Verb edit

(ただよ) (tadayouただよふ (tadayofu)?intransitive godan (stem (ただよ) (tadayoi), past (ただよ)った (tadayotta))

  1. [from 712] to float
    青空(あおぞら)(くも)(ただよ)
    Aozora ni kumo ga tadayou.
    The clouds are floating in the blue sky.

Conjugation edit

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