蠢く
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 蠢 |
| うごめ Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi |
Etymology
うご (ugo, an ideophone also found in the verb 動く (ugoku) and the adverb うごうご (ugougo)) + めく (-meku, “to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like”, a verb-forming suffix)[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
蠢く • (ugomeku) intransitive godan (stem 蠢き (ugomeki), past 蠢いた (ugomeita))
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 蠢か | うごめか | ugomeka |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 蠢き | うごめき | ugomeki |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 蠢く | うごめく | ugomeku |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 蠢く | うごめく | ugomeku |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 蠢け | うごめけ | ugomeke |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 蠢け | うごめけ | ugomeke |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 蠢かれる | うごめかれる | ugomekareru |
| Causative | 蠢かせる 蠢かす |
うごめかせる うごめかす |
ugomekaseru ugomekasu |
| Potential | 蠢ける | うごめける | ugomekeru |
| Volitional | 蠢こう | うごめこう | ugomekō |
| Negative | 蠢かない | うごめかない | ugomekanai |
| Negative continuative | 蠢かず | うごめかず | ugomekazu |
| Formal | 蠢きます | うごめきます | ugomekimasu |
| Perfective | 蠢いた | うごめいた | ugomeita |
| Conjunctive | 蠢いて | うごめいて | ugomeite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 蠢けば | うごめけば | ugomekeba |
References
- ^ “蠢く”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- “▲蠢く”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026