Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [te̞ ɡa̠ de̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

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()() (te ga deruichidan (stem ()() (te ga de), past ()() (te ga deta))

Japanese verb pair
active 手を出す
mediopassive 手が出る
  1. (chiefly in the negative) to be able to take action; to be capable of achieving a goal or solving a problem
    パソコンはなかなか()()ない
    Pasokon wa nakanaka te ga denai.
    They can hardly afford to buy personal computers.
  2. to use violence
    • 2015, 片田珠美, [図解]他人を攻撃せずにはいられない人, →ISBN, page 10:
      ()()(ひと)というのは、見方(みかた)によっては「()(どく)(ひと)」だともいえます。
      Te ga deru hito to iu no wa, mikata ni yotte wa “kinodoku na hito” da to mo iemasu.
      A violent person, in a sense is also a miserable person.

Usage notes

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  • This phrase has a syntactical subject . Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with /, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with . Also, the subject marker may be omitted, giving 手出る, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by , giving 手の出る.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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