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寝る

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
寝
ね
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
寢る (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese 寝 (nu).

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "寝る"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形) 		寝る ねる [nèrú]
Imperative (命令形) 寝ろ ねろ [nèró]
Key constructions
Passive 寝られる ねられる [nèrárérú]
Causative 寝させる ねさせる [nèsásérú]
Potential 寝られる ねられる [nèrárérú]
Volitional 寝よう ねよ​ー [nèyóꜜò]
Negative 寝ない ねない [nènáí]
Negative perfective 寝なかった ねな​かった [nènáꜜkàttà]
Formal 寝ます ねま​す [nèmáꜜsù]
Perfective 寝た ねた [nètá]
Conjunctive 寝て ねて [nèté]
Hypothetical conditional 寝れば ねれ​ば [nèréꜜbà]

Verb edit

寝(ね)る • (neru) intransitive ichidan (stem 寝(ね) (ne), past 寝(ね)た (neta))

  1. to sleep
  2. to go to bed
  3. (と～ (と～)) to sleep with, to have sexual intercourse with
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:性交する
    • 2003 April 22, Kenshi Hirokane, “ＳＴＥＰ２　さよならはダンスの後に [Step 2: Only Say Goodbye after the Dance]”, in ヤング島耕作 [Young Shima Kōsaku], volume 1 (fiction), Tōkyō: Kōdansha, →ISBN, page 42:
      おまえ中(なか)井(い)と寝(ね)たのか？
      Omae Nakai to neta no ka?
      Did you sleep with Nakai?
  4. to lie down
  5. (of miso, sake, etc.) to ripen, to ferment, to cure

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of "寝る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 寝 ね ne
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 寝 ね ne
Shūshikei ("terminal") 寝る ねる neru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 寝る ねる neru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 寝れ ねれ nere
Meireikei ("imperative") 寝よ¹
寝ろ² 		ねよ¹
ねろ² 		neyo¹
nero²
Key constructions
Passive 寝られる ねられる nerareru
Causative 寝させる
寝さす 		ねさせる
ねさす 		nesaseru
nesasu
Potential 寝られる
寝れる³ 		ねられる
ねれる³ 		nerareru
nereru³
Volitional 寝よう ねよう neyō
Negative 寝ない
寝ぬ
寝ん 		ねない
ねぬ
ねん 		nenai
nenu
nen
Negative continuative 寝ず ねず nezu
Formal 寝ます ねます nemasu
Perfective 寝た ねた neta
Conjunctive 寝て ねて nete
Hypothetical conditional 寝れば ねれば nereba
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
³ Colloquial potential

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References edit

  1. ^ Uwano, Zendo (2002 October 31) “見島方言の用言のアクセント調査報告 [A Report on the Accentual Surveys of Verbs and Adjectives in the Mishima Dialect]”, in 環太平洋の「消滅に瀕した言語」にかんする緊急調査研究 [Endangered languages of the Pacific Rim]‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 September 2022
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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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