Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
活かす

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "生かす"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
生かす [ìkáꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 生かせ [ìkáꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 生かされる かされ [ìkásáréꜜrù]
Causative 生かさせる かさせ [ìkásáséꜜrù]
Potential 生かせる かせ [ìkáséꜜrù]
Volitional 生かそう かそ [ìkásóꜜò]
Negative 生かさない かさない [ìkásáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 生かさなかった かさなかった [ìkásáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 生かします かしま [ìkáshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 生かした した [ìkáꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 生かして して [ìkáꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 生かせば せば [ìkáꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

()かす (ikasutransitive godan (stem ()かし (ikashi), past ()かした (ikashita))

Japanese verb pair
active 生かす
mediopassive 生きる
  1. to bring to life, to revive, to resuscitate
  2. to let live, to spare (one's life)
  3. to make full use of (something), to capitalise on, to leverage (skills and etc)

Conjugation edit

Related terms 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