Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
目指す
目差す

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "目指す"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
目指す [mèzáꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 目指せ [mèzáꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 目指される ざされ [mèzásáréꜜrù]
Causative 目指させる ざさせ [mèzásáséꜜrù]
Potential 目指せる ざせ [mèzáséꜜrù]
Volitional 目指そう ざそ [mèzásóꜜò]
Negative 目指さない ざさない [mèzásáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 目指さなかった ざさなかった [mèzásáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 目指します ざしま [mèzáshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 目指した した [mèzáꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 目指して して [mèzáꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 目指せば せば [mèzáꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

めざす (mezasutransitive godan (stem めざし (mezashi), past めざした (mezashita))

  1. to aim for, be after
    • 2018 February 28, “TOEIC ni deru fukugōmeishi 50 sen! [50 compound nouns that appear in TOEIC]”, in English Hacker[1]:
      (おお)くのビジネスに(かん)する(ふく)(ごう)(めい)()(おぼ)えて、TOEIC(トーイック)ハイスコアを()()しましょう
      ōku no bijinesu ni kan suru fukugōmeishi o oboete, Tōikku hai sukoa o mezashimashō!
      By remembering lots of business-related compound nouns, let’s aim for a high TOEIC score!
  2. to head towards, go towards

Conjugation 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