Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
かく
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
隱れる (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "隠れる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
隠れる くれ [kàkúréꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 隠れろ くれ [kàkúréꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 隠れられる くれられ [kàkúréráréꜜrù]
Causative 隠れさせる くれさせ [kàkúrésáséꜜrù]
Potential 隠れられる くれられ [kàkúréráréꜜrù]
Volitional 隠れよう くれよ [kàkúréyóꜜò]
Negative 隠れない くれない [kàkúréꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 隠れなかった くれなかった [kàkúréꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 隠れます くれま [kàkúrémáꜜsù]
Perfective 隠れた れた [kàkúꜜrètà]
Conjunctive 隠れて れて [kàkúꜜrètè]
Hypothetical conditional 隠れれば くれれば [kàkúréꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

(かく)れる (kakureruintransitive ichidan (stem (かく) (kakure), past (かく)れた (kakureta))

Japanese verb pair
active 隠す
mediopassive 隠れる
  1. hide; conceal oneself
  2. become invisible; become latent
  3. (euphemistic, honorific) to die

Usage notes edit

In Japan, the euphemism referred to the demise of an emperor. It was based on the belief that the emperor of Japan was a descendant of the solar goddess Amaterasu, so this usage meant "the sun [the emperor] was hidden in the clouds".

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References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN