Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "舞う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
舞う [màú]
Imperative (命令形) 舞え [màé]
Key constructions
Passive 舞われる われる [màwárérú]
Causative 舞わせる わせる [màwásérú]
Potential 舞える える [màérú]
Volitional 舞おう [màóꜜò]
Negative 舞わない わない [màwánáí]
Negative perfective 舞わなかった わなかった [màwánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 舞います いま [màímáꜜsù]
Perfective 舞った った [màttá]
Conjunctive 舞って って [màtté]
Hypothetical conditional 舞えば [màéꜜbà]

Verb edit

() (mauまふ (mafu)?intransitive godan (stem () (mai), past ()った (matta))

  1. to dance
  2. to twirl; to rotate or spin
    (かぜ)()花弁(はなびら)
    kaze ni mau hanabira
    flower petals blowing in the wind
  3. (archaic or in fixed compounds) to keep moving; to move continuously
    ()() (furumau, to behave)
    ()() (tachimau, to socialize)

Usage notes edit

This word primarily refers to whirling dances, as opposed to (おど) (odoru) which primarily refers to hopping dances.

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →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