いそいそ
Japanese
Etymology
Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).[1][2]
First attested in a text from 1212.[3]
Pronunciation
- (Tokyo) いそいそ [íꜜsòìsò] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5]
- (Tokyo) いそいそ [ìsóíꜜsò] (Nakadaka – [3])[5]
- IPA(key): [iso̞iso̞]
Adverb
いそいそ or イソイソ • (isoiso)
- [from 1212] cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity
Usage notes
May optionally take the adverbial particle と (to).[2][3][6][4][7]
Verb
いそいそする or イソイソする • (isoiso suru) suru (stem いそいそし (isoiso shi), past いそいそした (isoiso shita))
Usage notes
Not all sources treat this as a verb,[2][3][7] likely because all such adverbs can be used with the light verb する (suru).
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | いそいそし | isoiso shi | |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | いそいそし | isoiso shi | |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | いそいそする | isoiso suru | |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | いそいそする | isoiso suru | |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | いそいそすれ | isoiso sure | |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | いそいそせよ¹ いそいそしろ² |
isoiso seyo¹ isoiso shiro² | |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | いそいそされる | isoiso sareru | |
| Causative | いそいそさせる いそいそさす |
isoiso saseru isoiso sasu | |
| Potential | いそいそできる | isoiso dekiru | |
| Volitional | いそいそしよう | isoiso shiyō | |
| Negative | いそいそしない | isoiso shinai | |
| Negative continuative | いそいそせず | isoiso sezu | |
| Formal | いそいそします | isoiso shimasu | |
| Perfective | いそいそした | isoiso shita | |
| Conjunctive | いそいそして | isoiso shite | |
| Hypothetical conditional | いそいそすれば | isoiso sureba | |
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002), 明鏡国語辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “いそいそ”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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
- ^ “いそいそ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN