Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
みと
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "認める"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
認める とめる [mìtómérú]
Imperative (命令形) 認めろ とめろ [mìtóméró]
Key constructions
Passive 認められる とめられる [mìtómérárérú]
Causative 認めさせる とめさせる [mìtómésásérú]
Potential 認められる とめられる [mìtómérárérú]
Volitional 認めよう とめよ [mìtóméyóꜜò]
Negative 認めない とめない [mìtóménáí]
Negative perfective 認めなかった とめなかった [mìtóménáꜜkàttà]
Formal 認めます とめま [mìtómémáꜜsù]
Perfective 認めた とめた [mìtómétá]
Conjunctive 認めて とめて [mìtómété]
Hypothetical conditional 認めれば とめれ [mìtóméréꜜbà]

Verb edit

(みと)める (mitomeruichidan (stem (みと) (mitome), past (みと)めた (mitometa))

  1. to accept, admit, to approve, to allow
    • 2011, Barack Obama, 中東と北アフリカに関するバラク・オバマの演説, translation of "Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa":
      シリア(せい)()はデモ(たい)への発砲(はっぽう)をやめ、(へい)()的抗(てきこう)()(みと)めねばならない。
      Shiria seifu wa demotai e no happō o yame, heiwateki kōgi o mitomeneba naranai.
      The Syrian government must stop shooting demonstrators and allow peaceful protests.
  2. to recognize
    本当(ほんとう)だということを(みと)めなければなりません。
    Hontō da to iu koto o mitomenakereba narimasen.
    One must recognize that it is true.
  3. to acknowledge
  4. to concede
  5. to appreciate, to witness
  6. to observe or notice
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Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
したた
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(したた)める (shitatamerutransitive ichidan (stem (したた) (shitatame), past (したた)めた (shitatameta))

  1. write (some text; a letter); put down (one's thoughts on paper)
  2. eat; put down (a meal)
  3. treat; deal with
  4. prepare
  5. subdue
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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (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