Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
See also お詫び

Etymology edit

Cognate with Japanese 侘びる (wabiru).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "詫びる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
詫びる びる [wàbírú]
Imperative (命令形) 詫びろ びろ [wàbíró]
Key constructions
Passive 詫びられる びられる [wàbírárérú]
Causative 詫びさせる びさせる [wàbísásérú]
Potential 詫びられる びられる [wàbírárérú]
Volitional 詫びよう びよ [wàbíyóꜜò]
Negative 詫びない びない [wàbínáí]
Negative perfective 詫びなかった びなかった [wàbínáꜜkàttà]
Formal 詫びます びま [wàbímáꜜsù]
Perfective 詫びた びた [wàbítá]
Conjunctive 詫びて びて [wàbíté]
Hypothetical conditional 詫びれば びれ [wàbíréꜜbà]

Verb edit

()びる (wabiruintransitive ichidan (stem () (wabi), past ()びた (wabita))

  1. apologize

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 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
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN