よなき

Japanese

Alternative spellings
夜泣き 夜泣 (dated) 夜鳴き 夜鳴 (dated) 夜啼き 夜啼 (dated)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) よなき [yònákí] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) よなき​ [yònákíꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [jo̞na̠kʲi]

Noun

よなき • (yonaki) 

1. crying at night
   1. 夜泣き, 夜泣: crying of a baby at night
   2. 夜鳴き, 夜鳴, 夜啼き, 夜啼: crying of a bird at night

Verb

よなきする • (yonaki suru) suru (stem よなきし (yonakisuru shi), past よなきした (yonakisuru shita))

1. to cry at night
   1. 夜泣き, 夜泣: (of a baby) to cry at night
   2. 夜鳴き, 夜鳴, 夜啼き, 夜啼: (of a bird) to cry at night

Conjugation

Conjugation of "よなきする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	よなきし	yonaki shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	よなきし	yonaki shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	よなきする	yonaki suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	よなきする	yonaki suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	よなきすれ	yonaki sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	よなきせよ¹ よなきしろ²	yonaki seyo¹ yonaki shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	よなきされる	yonaki sareru
Causative	よなきさせる よなきさす	yonaki saseru yonaki sasu
Potential	よなきできる	yonaki dekiru
Volitional	よなきしよう	yonaki shiyō
Negative	よなきしない	yonaki shinai
Negative continuative	よなきせず	yonaki sezu
Formal	よなきします	yonaki shimasu
Perfective	よなきした	yonaki shita
Conjunctive	よなきして	yonaki shite
Hypothetical conditional	よなきすれば	yonaki sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

See also

• 小夜鳴(さよな)き鳥(どり) (sayonakidori, “nightingale”)