轍を踏む
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 轍 | 踏 |
| てつ Hyōgai |
ふ Grade: S |
| kan'on | kun'yomi |
Etymology
轍 (tetsu, “wheel track, rut”) + を (o) + 踏む (fumu, “to follow (a path)”). Literally, “to go down (someone else's) tracks”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [te̞t͡sɨ o̞ ɸɯ̟mɯ̟]
Verb
轍を踏む • (tetsu o fumu) intransitive godan (stem 轍を踏み (tetsu o fumi), past 轍を踏んだ (tetsu o funda))
- (idiomatic) to make the same mistake as someone else before
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 轍を踏ま | てつをふま | tetsu o fuma |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 轍を踏み | てつをふみ | tetsu o fumi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 轍を踏む | てつをふむ | tetsu o fumu |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 轍を踏む | てつをふむ | tetsu o fumu |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 轍を踏め | てつをふめ | tetsu o fume |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 轍を踏め | てつをふめ | tetsu o fume |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 轍を踏まれる | てつをふまれる | tetsu o fumareru |
| Causative | 轍を踏ませる 轍を踏ます |
てつをふませる てつをふます |
tetsu o fumaseru tetsu o fumasu |
| Potential | 轍を踏める | てつをふめる | tetsu o fumeru |
| Volitional | 轍を踏もう | てつをふもう | tetsu o fumō |
| Negative | 轍を踏まない | てつをふまない | tetsu o fumanai |
| Negative continuative | 轍を踏まず | てつをふまず | tetsu o fumazu |
| Formal | 轍を踏みます | てつをふみます | tetsu o fumimasu |
| Perfective | 轍を踏んだ | てつをふんだ | tetsu o funda |
| Conjunctive | 轍を踏んで | てつをふんで | tetsu o funde |
| Hypothetical conditional | 轍を踏めば | てつをふめば | tetsu o fumeba |