仮託

Japanese

Kanji in this term
仮	託
か Grade: 5	たく Grade: S
kan'on	on'yomi

Alternative spellings
假託 (kyūjitai) 仮托

Etymology

From Chinese 假託. Based on the use of kan'on readings, likely from Middle Chinese. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かたく [kàtákú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ta̠kɯ̟]

Noun

仮(か)託(たく) • (kataku)

excuse, pretext, pretense, plea
Synonyms: 託け (kakotsuke), 藉口 (shakō); see also Thesaurus:口実

それは仮(か)託(たく)だけだろ？
Sore wa kataku dake daro?
That's just a prextext, isn't it?

Verb

仮(か)託(たく)する • (kataku suru) suru (stem 仮(か)託(たく)し (kataku shi), past 仮(か)託(たく)した (kataku shita))

to make a pretext, excuse, or plea of
Synonyms: 託ける (kakotsukeru), 藉口する (shakō suru)

病(びょう)気(き)に仮(か)託(たく)してズル休(やす)みしたんだよ。
Byōki ni kataku shite zuruyasumi shitanda yo.
He used illness as an excuse to play truant.
- 1960, 芝木好子, 湯葉:
  
  芝(しば)居(い)を観(み)る者(もの)のすべては、そうして舞(ぶ)台(たい)の世(せ)界(かい)に己(おの)れを仮(か)託(たく)している…
  Shibai o miru mono no subete wa, sō shite butai no sekai ni onore o kataku shiteiru…
  (please add an English translation of this example)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "仮託する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	仮託し	かたくし	kataku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	仮託し	かたくし	kataku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	仮託する	かたくする	kataku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	仮託する	かたくする	kataku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	仮託すれ	かたくすれ	kataku sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	仮託せよ¹ 仮託しろ²	かたくせよ¹ かたくしろ²	kataku seyo¹ kataku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	仮託される	かたくされる	kataku sareru
Causative	仮託させる仮託さす	かたくさせるかたくさす	kataku saseru kataku sasu
Potential	仮託できる	かたくできる	kataku dekiru
Volitional	仮託しよう	かたくしよう	kataku shiyō
Negative	仮託しない	かたくしない	kataku shinai
Negative continuative	仮託せず	かたくせず	kataku sezu
Formal	仮託します	かたくします	kataku shimasu
Perfective	仮託した	かたくした	kataku shita
Conjunctive	仮託して	かたくして	kataku shite
Hypothetical conditional	仮託すれば	かたくすれば	kataku sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ 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

“仮託”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

[NHK-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

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