手が出る

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1

Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [te̞ ɡa̠ de̞ɾɯ̟]

Verb

()() • (te ga deruichidan (stem ()() (te ga de), past ()() (te ga deta))

Japanese verb pair
active 手を出す
mediopassive 手が出る
  1. (chiefly in the negative) to be able to take action; to be capable of achieving a goal or solving a problem
    パソコンはなかなか()()ない
    Pasokon wa nakanaka te ga denai.
    They can hardly afford to buy personal computers.
  2. to use violence
    • 2015, 片田珠美, [図解]他人を攻撃せずにはいられない人, →ISBN, page 10:
      ()()(ひと)というのは、見方(みかた)によっては「()(どく)(ひと)」だともいえます。
      Te ga deru hito to iu no wa, mikata ni yotte wa “kinodoku na hito” da to mo iemasu.
      A violent person, in a sense is also a miserable person.

Usage notes

  • This phrase has a syntactical subject . Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with /, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with . Also, the subject marker may be omitted, giving 手出る, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by , giving 手の出る.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "手が出る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 手が出 てがで te ga de
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 手が出 てがで te ga de
Shūshikei ("terminal") 手が出る てがでる te ga deru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 手が出る てがでる te ga deru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 手が出れ てがでれ te ga dere
Meireikei ("imperative") 手が出よ¹
手が出ろ²
てがでよ¹
てがでろ²
te ga deyo¹
te ga dero²
Key constructions
Passive 手が出られる てがでられる te ga derareru
Causative 手が出させる
手が出さす
てがでさせる
てがでさす
te ga desaseru
te ga desasu
Potential 手が出られる
手が出れる³
てがでられる
てがでれる³
te ga derareru
te ga dereru³
Volitional 手が出よう てがでよう te ga deyō
Negative 手が出ない
手が出ぬ
手が出ん
てがでない
てがでぬ
てがでん
te ga denai
te ga denu
te ga den
Negative continuative 手が出ず てがでず te ga dezu
Formal 手が出ます てがでます te ga demasu
Perfective 手が出た てがでた te ga deta
Conjunctive 手が出て てがでて te ga dete
Hypothetical conditional 手が出れば てがでれば te ga dereba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
³ Colloquial potential

Derived terms

  • ()(あし)()ない (te mo ashi mo denai)