Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

⟨to1pu⟩ → */tʷopu//toɸu//tou/

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "問う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
問う [tóꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 問え [tóꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 問われる われ [tòwáréꜜrù]
Causative 問わせる わせ [tòwáséꜜrù]
Potential 問える [tòéꜜrù]
Volitional 問おう [tòóꜜò]
Negative 問わない ない [tòwáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 問わなかった なかった [tòwáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 問います いま [tòímáꜜsù]
Perfective 問うた ーた [tóꜜòtà]
Conjunctive 問うて ーて [tóꜜòtè]
Hypothetical conditional 問えば えば [tóꜜèbà]

Verb edit

() (touとふ (tofu)?transitive godan (stem () (toi), past ()うた (tōta))

  1. to ask; to inquire
  2. to accuse (of a crime)
  3. to care (about), have regard (for)

Conjugation edit

The past and conjunctive forms are conjugated as ()うた (tōta) and ()うて (toute) respectively, rather than ()った (totta) and ()って (totte)

Derived terms edit

Idioms edit

References edit

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.