投じる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
投
とう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Etymology

Shift from 投(とう)ずる (tōzuru), by natural progression from サ行変格活用 (sagyō henkaku katsuyō, “s-irregular conjugation”) verbs ending in -uru to 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō, “upper monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in -iru.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とーじる [tòójírú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
(Tokyo) とーじる [tòójíꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [to̞ːʑiɾɯ̟]

Verb

投(とう)じる • (tōjiru) intransitive ichidan (stem 投(とう)じ (tōji), past 投(とう)じた (tōjita))

cast, throw
invest

Conjugation

Conjugation of "投じる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	投じ	とうじ	tōji
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	投じ	とうじ	tōji
Shūshikei ("terminal")	投じる	とうじる	tōjiru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	投じる	とうじる	tōjiru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	投じれ	とうじれ	tōjire
Meireikei ("imperative")	投じよ¹ 投じろ²	とうじよ¹ とうじろ²	tōjiyo¹ tōjiro²
Key constructions
Passive	投じられる	とうじられる	tōjirareru
Causative	投じさせる投じさす	とうじさせるとうじさす	tōjisaseru tōjisasu
Potential	投じられる投じれる³	とうじられるとうじれる³	tōjirareru tōjireru³
Volitional	投じよう	とうじよう	tōjiyō
Negative	投じない投じぬ投じん	とうじないとうじぬとうじん	tōjinai tōjinu tōjin
Negative continuative	投じず	とうじず	tōjizu
Formal	投じます	とうじます	tōjimasu
Perfective	投じた	とうじた	tōjita
Conjunctive	投じて	とうじて	tōjite
Hypothetical conditional	投じれば	とうじれば	tōjireba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[NHK-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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