Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
盡くす (kyūjitai)
尽す

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese [script needed] (tukusu). Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE, spelled phonetically in man'yōgana as 都久須.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "尽くす"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
尽くす [tsùkúꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 尽くせ [tsùkúꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 尽くされる くされ [tsùkúsáréꜜrù]
Causative 尽くさせる くさせ [tsùkúsáséꜜrù]
Potential 尽くせる くせ [tsùkúséꜜrù]
Volitional 尽くそう くそ [tsùkúsóꜜò]
Negative 尽くさない くさない [tsùkúsáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 尽くさなかった くさなかった [tsùkúsáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 尽くします くしま [tsùkúshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 尽くした した [tsùkúꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 尽くして して [tsùkúꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 尽くせば せば [tsùkúꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

()くす (tsukusugodan (stem ()くし (tsukushi), past ()くした (tsukushita))

Japanese verb pair
active 尽くす
mediopassive 尽きる
  1. To exhaust; deplete; use up.
    • 1632, Diego Collado, Dictionarium Sive Thesauri Linguae Iaponicae Compendium:
      Exhaurio, is: agotar: tçucuxi, u.
      Exhaurio, is: agotar: tçucuxi, u.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. serve, assist

Conjugation edit

Suffix edit

()くす (-tsukusu

  1. to do to exhaustion, to do something completely
    ()()くす
    iitsukusu
    to say completely

Usage notes edit

Attach after the 連用形(れんようけい) (ren'yōkei) of a verb.

References edit

  1. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 18, poem 4122: