Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese verb 老ゆ (oyu).

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "老いる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
老いる [òíꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 老いろ [òíꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 老いられる いられ [òíráréꜜrù]
Causative 老いさせる いさせ [òísáséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 老いられよう いられよ [òíráréyóꜜò]
Negative 老いない ない [òíꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 老いなかった なかった [òíꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 老います いま [òímáꜜsù]
Perfective 老いた いた [óꜜìtà]
Conjunctive 老いて いて [óꜜìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 老いれば れば [òíꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

()いる (oiruichidan (stem () (oi), past ()いた (oita))

  1. to age, to grow old

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN