たなびく

Japanese

Alternative spellings
棚引く靆く

Etymology

From たな (tana-) + 引(ひ)く (hiku).^[1] The hiku changes to biku as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) たなびく [tànábíꜜkù] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ta̠na̠bʲikɯ̟]

Verb

たなびく • (tanabiku) ^{←たなびく (tanabiku)^?}intransitive godan (stem たなびき (tanabiki), past たなびいた (tanabiita))

(of a cloud, smoke, etc.) to trail

Conjugation

Conjugation of "たなびく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	たなびか	tanabika
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	たなびき	tanabiki
Shūshikei ("terminal")	たなびく	tanabiku
Rentaikei ("attributive")	たなびく	tanabiku
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	たなびけ	tanabike
Meireikei ("imperative")	たなびけ	tanabike
Key constructions
Passive	たなびかれる	tanabikareru
Causative	たなびかせるたなびかす	tanabikaseru tanabikasu
Potential	たなびける	tanabikeru
Volitional	たなびこう	tanabikō
Negative	たなびかない	tanabikanai
Negative continuative	たなびかず	tanabikazu
Formal	たなびきます	tanabikimasu
Perfective	たなびいた	tanabiita
Conjunctive	たなびいて	tanabiite
Hypothetical conditional	たなびけば	tanabikeba

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN