読む
Japanese
editKanji in this term |
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読 |
よ Grade: 2 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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讀む (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
edit- Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「読む」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary | |||
Stem forms | |||
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Terminal (終止形) Attributive (連体形) |
読む | よむ | [yóꜜmù] |
Imperative (命令形) | 読め | よめ | [yóꜜmè] |
Key constructions | |||
Passive | 読まれる | よまれる | [yòmáréꜜrù] |
Causative | 読ませる | よませる | [yòmáséꜜrù] |
Potential | 読める | よめる | [yòméꜜrù] |
Volitional | 読もう | よもー | [yòmóꜜò] |
Negative | 読まない | よまない | [yòmáꜜnàì] |
Negative perfective | 読まなかった | よまなかった | [yòmáꜜnàkàttà] |
Formal | 読みます | よみます | [yòmímáꜜsù] |
Perfective | 読んだ | よんだ | [yóꜜǹdà] |
Conjunctive | 読んで | よんで | [yóꜜǹdè] |
Hypothetical conditional | 読めば | よめば | [yóꜜmèbà] |
Verb
edit読む • (yomu) transitive godan (stem 読み (yomi), past 読んだ (yonda))
- to read (look at and interpret written text)
- この本を読みたいです。
- Kono hon o yomitai desu.
- I want to read this book.
- この本を読みたいです。
- to read (speak aloud written text)
- これなんて読む?
- Kore nan te yomu?
- How do you say this?
- これなんて読む?
- to infer; to speculate
- 相手の手の内を読む
- aite no te no uchi o yomu
- to guess the opponent's plan
- 相手の出方を読みそこねた
- aite no dekata o yomisokoneta
- We could not read their intentions.
- 相手の手の内を読む
- to count
- 票を読む
- hyō o yomu
- to count votes
- 票を読む
Conjugation
editConjugation of "読む" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
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Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 読ま | よま | yoma |
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 読み | よみ | yomi |
Shūshikei ("terminal") | 読む | よむ | yomu |
Rentaikei ("attributive") | 読む | よむ | yomu |
Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 読め | よめ | yome |
Meireikei ("imperative") | 読め | よめ | yome |
Key constructions | |||
Passive | 読まれる | よまれる | yomareru |
Causative | 読ませる 読ます |
よませる よます |
yomaseru yomasu |
Potential | 読める | よめる | yomeru |
Volitional | 読もう | よもう | yomō |
Negative | 読まない | よまない | yomanai |
Negative continuative | 読まず | よまず | yomazu |
Formal | 読みます | よみます | yomimasu |
Perfective | 読んだ | よんだ | yonda |
Conjunctive | 読んで | よんで | yonde |
Hypothetical conditional | 読めば | よめば | yomeba |
Derived terms
editSee also
editReferences
edit- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
- ^ 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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