でかせぎ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
出稼ぎ

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) かせぎ [dèkáségí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [de̞ka̠se̞ɡʲi]

Noun

でかせぎ • (dekasegiでかせぎ (dekasegi)?

  1. working away from home; migrant worker
  2. dekasegi

Descendants

  • English: dekasegi
  • Portuguese: decasségui, decassegui

Verb

でかせぎする • (dekasegi suruでかせぎ (dekasegi)?suru (stem でかせぎ (dekasegi shi), past でかせぎした (dekasegi shita))

  1. to work away from home

Conjugation

Conjugation of "でかせぎする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") でかせぎし dekasegi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") でかせぎし dekasegi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") でかせぎする dekasegi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") でかせぎする dekasegi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") でかせぎすれ dekasegi sure
Meireikei ("imperative") でかせぎせよ¹
でかせぎしろ²
dekasegi seyo¹
dekasegi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive でかせぎされる dekasegi sareru
Causative でかせぎさせる
でかせぎさす
dekasegi saseru
dekasegi sasu
Potential でかせぎできる dekasegi dekiru
Volitional でかせぎしよう dekasegi shiyō
Negative でかせぎしない dekasegi shinai
Negative continuative でかせぎせず dekasegi sezu
Formal でかせぎします dekasegi shimasu
Perfective でかせぎした dekasegi shita
Conjunctive でかせぎして dekasegi shite
Hypothetical conditional でかせぎすれば dekasegi sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

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