Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "過ごす"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
過ごす [sùgóꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 過ごせ [sùgóꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 過ごされる ごされ [sùgósáréꜜrù]
Causative 過ごさせる ごさせ [sùgósáséꜜrù]
Potential 過ごせる ごせ [sùgóséꜜrù]
Volitional 過ごそう ごそ [sùgósóꜜò]
Negative 過ごさない ごさない [sùgósáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 過ごさなかった ごさなかった [sùgósáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 過ごします ごしま [sùgóshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 過ごした した [sùgóꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 過ごして して [sùgóꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 過ごせば せば [sùgóꜜsèbà]

Verb edit

()ごす (sugosutransitive godan (stem ()ごし (sugoshi), past ()ごした (sugoshita))

Japanese verb pair
active 過ごす
mediopassive 過ぎる
  1. spend, pass (time); have (a holiday)
    退屈(たいくつ)日々(ひび)()ごす
    taikutsu na hibi o sugosu
    to live out boring days
    休日(きゅうじつ)(いえ)()ごす
    kyūjitsu o ie de sugosu
    to spend a day off at home
    不安(ふあん)(よる)()ごす
    fuan na yoru o sugosu
    to endure a night of anxiety
    (literally, “to pass an uneasy night”)
  2. do something too much, carry something too far

Conjugation edit

References edit

  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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN