Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

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⟨to1pu⟩ → */tʷopu//toɸu//tou/

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

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  • 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

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() (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

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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

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Idioms

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References

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