いむ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
忌む
諱む
斎む

Pronunciation

Verb

いむ • (imuintransitive godan (stem いみ (imi), past いんだ (inda))

  1. to avoid
  2. to detest
    ()べきimubekidetestable
Conjugation
Conjugation of "いむ" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") いま ima
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") いみ imi
Shūshikei ("terminal") いむ imu
Rentaikei ("attributive") いむ imu
Kateikei ("hypothetical") いめ ime
Meireikei ("imperative") いめ ime
Key constructions
Passive いまれる imareru
Causative いませる
います
imaseru
imasu
Potential いめる imeru
Volitional いもう imō
Negative いまない imanai
Negative continuative いまず imazu
Formal いみます imimasu
Perfective いんだ inda
Conjunctive いんで inde
Hypothetical conditional いめば imeba
Derived terms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of いむ – see the following entries.
S
[noun] synonym of (imi) (see Etymology 6 above)
(This term, いむ (imu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as いむ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いむ.

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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN