Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
くず
Grade: S
kun’yomi
See also 崩れ

Etymology edit

⟨kuduru⟩/kuduru//kud͡zuru//kud͡zureru/

From Old Japanese 崩る (kuduru), in the 下二段活用 (shimo nidan katsuyō, lower bigrade conjugation) pattern.

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First cited to the 播磨風土記 (Harima Fudoki) of 715.[1]

Ultimately from (kuzu, rubbish, refuse, scrap, junk, waste),[1] and analyzable as etymologically meaning "to become rubbish". For the causative form 崩す (kuzusu), compare English to lay waste, to ruin.

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "崩れる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
崩れる ずれ [kùzúréꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 崩れろ ずれ [kùzúréꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 崩れられる ずれられ [kùzúréráréꜜrù]
Causative 崩れさせる ずれさせ [kùzúrésáséꜜrù]
Potential 崩れられる ずれられ [kùzúréráréꜜrù]
Volitional 崩れよう ずれよ [kùzúréyóꜜò]
Negative 崩れない ずれない [kùzúréꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 崩れなかった ずれなかった [kùzúréꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 崩れます ずれま [kùzúrémáꜜsù]
Perfective 崩れた れた [kùzúꜜrètà]
Conjunctive 崩れて れて [kùzúꜜrètè]
Hypothetical conditional 崩れれば ずれれば [kùzúréꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

(くず)れる (kuzureruintransitive ichidan (stem (くず) (kuzure), past (くず)れた (kuzureta))

Japanese verb pair
active 崩す
mediopassive 崩れる
  1. [from 715] to collapse, to fall, to be destroyed, to become ruined, to crumble

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ 崩れる”, in デジタル大辞泉[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  4. ^ 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
  5. 5.0 5.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  6. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  7. ^ 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