速読
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 速 | 読 |
| そく Grade: 3 |
どく Grade: 2 |
| on'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 速讀 (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
Noun
速読 • (sokudoku)
Verb
速読する • (sokudoku suru) suru (stem 速読し (sokudoku shi), past 速読した (sokudoku shita))
- to speedread
- 2015 September 21, Daniel Morales, “When translation gets tough, bow to the ‘Green Goddess’”, in The Japan Times[1] (in English), retrieved 11 April 2023:
- I generally sokudoku (速読, skim/speed-read) and try to understand everything from bunmyaku (文脈, context) [...]
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 速読し | そくどくし | sokudoku shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 速読し | そくどくし | sokudoku shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 速読する | そくどくする | sokudoku suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 速読する | そくどくする | sokudoku suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 速読すれ | そくどくすれ | sokudoku sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 速読せよ¹ 速読しろ² |
そくどくせよ¹ そくどくしろ² |
sokudoku seyo¹ sokudoku shiro² |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 速読される | そくどくされる | sokudoku sareru |
| Causative | 速読させる 速読さす |
そくどくさせる そくどくさす |
sokudoku saseru sokudoku sasu |
| Potential | 速読できる | そくどくできる | sokudoku dekiru |
| Volitional | 速読しよう | そくどくしよう | sokudoku shiyō |
| Negative | 速読しない | そくどくしない | sokudoku shinai |
| Negative continuative | 速読せず | そくどくせず | sokudoku sezu |
| Formal | 速読します | そくどくします | sokudoku shimasu |
| Perfective | 速読した | そくどくした | sokudoku shita |
| Conjunctive | 速読して | そくどくして | sokudoku shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 速読すれば | そくどくすれば | sokudoku sureba |
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
References
- ^ 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