Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *teru.

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "照る"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
照る [téꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 照れ [téꜜrè]
Key constructions
Passive 照られる られ [tèráréꜜrù]
Causative 照らせる らせ [tèráséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 照ろう [tèróꜜò]
Negative 照らない ない [tèráꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 照らなかった なかった [tèráꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 照ります りま [tèrímáꜜsù]
Perfective 照った った [téꜜttà]
Conjunctive 照って って [téꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 照れば れば [téꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

() (teruintransitive godan (stem () (teri), past ()った (tetta))

Japanese verb pair
active 照らす
mediopassive 照る
  1. to shine
    ()って()っても……
    tette mo futte mo……
    rain or shine
    (literally, “shine or rain…”)
  2. to be fine

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  1. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN