閃く
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 閃 |
| ひらめ Jinmeiyō |
| kun'yomi |
Etymology
ひら (hira, also found in ひらひら (hirahira)) + 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
閃く • (hirameku) intransitive godan (stem 閃き (hirameki), past 閃いた (hirameita))
Conjugation
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 閃か | ひらめか | hirameka |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 閃き | ひらめき | hirameki |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 閃く | ひらめく | hirameku |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 閃く | ひらめく | hirameku |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 閃け | ひらめけ | hirameke |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 閃け | ひらめけ | hirameke |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 閃かれる | ひらめかれる | hiramekareru |
| Causative | 閃かせる 閃かす |
ひらめかせる ひらめかす |
hiramekaseru hiramekasu |
| Potential | 閃ける | ひらめける | hiramekeru |
| Volitional | 閃こう | ひらめこう | hiramekō |
| Negative | 閃かない | ひらめかない | hiramekanai |
| Negative continuative | 閃かず | ひらめかず | hiramekazu |
| Formal | 閃きます | ひらめきます | hiramekimasu |
| Perfective | 閃いた | ひらめいた | hirameita |
| Conjunctive | 閃いて | ひらめいて | hirameite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 閃けば | ひらめけば | hiramekeba |
References
- ^ “閃く”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō
- ^ 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
- “▲閃く”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026