はきはき
Japanese
Pronunciation
Adverb
はきはき • (hakihaki)
Verb
はきはきする • (hakihaki suru) suru (stem はきはきし (hakihaki shi), past はきはきした (hakihaki shita))
- to be clear, plain
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 45, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下 先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
- 男のように判然したところのある奥さんは、普通の女と違ってこんな場合には大変心持よく話のできる人でした。
- Otoko no yō ni hakihaki shita tokoro no aru Oku-san wa, futsū no onna to chigatte konna baai ni wa taihen kokoromochi-yoku hanashi no dekiru hito deshita.
- Oku-san, who had a kind of masculine clarity, was unlike ordinary women in that one could quite comfortably converse with her in such situations.
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | はきはきし | hakihaki shi | |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | はきはきし | hakihaki shi | |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | はきはきする | hakihaki suru | |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | はきはきする | hakihaki suru | |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | はきはきすれ | hakihaki sure | |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | はきはきせよ¹ はきはきしろ² |
hakihaki seyo¹ hakihaki shiro² | |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | はきはきされる | hakihaki sareru | |
| Causative | はきはきさせる はきはきさす |
hakihaki saseru hakihaki sasu | |
| Potential | はきはきできる | hakihaki dekiru | |
| Volitional | はきはきしよう | hakihaki shiyō | |
| Negative | はきはきしない | hakihaki shinai | |
| Negative continuative | はきはきせず | hakihaki sezu | |
| Formal | はきはきします | hakihaki shimasu | |
| Perfective | はきはきした | hakihaki shita | |
| Conjunctive | はきはきして | hakihaki shite | |
| Hypothetical conditional | はきはきすれば | hakihaki sureba | |
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
Related terms
- はっきり (hakkiri)
- はきと (hakito)
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN