やさがし

Japanese

Alternative spellings
家探し 家捜し

Etymology

From 家(や) (ya) + 探(さが)し (sagashi, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 探(さが)す (sagasu).”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やさがし [yàsáꜜgàshì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠sa̠ɡa̠ɕi]

Noun

やさがし • (yasagashi) ^{←やさがし (yasagasi)?}

1. 家捜し, 家探し: searching throughout a house
2. 家探し, 家捜し: searching for a house

Verb

やさがしする • (yasagashi suru) ^{←やさがし (yasagasi)?}suru (stem やさがしし (yasagashi shi), past やさがしした (yasagashi shita))

1. 家捜し, 家探し: to search throughout a house
2. 家探し, 家捜し: to search for a house

Conjugation

Conjugation of "やさがしする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	やさがしし	yasagashi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	やさがしし	yasagashi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	やさがしする	yasagashi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	やさがしする	yasagashi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	やさがしすれ	yasagashi sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	やさがしせよ¹ やさがししろ²	yasagashi seyo¹ yasagashi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	やさがしされる	yasagashi sareru
Causative	やさがしさせる やさがしさす	yasagashi saseru yasagashi sasu
Potential	やさがしできる	yasagashi dekiru
Volitional	やさがししよう	yasagashi shiyō
Negative	やさがししない	yasagashi shinai
Negative continuative	やさがしせず	yasagashi sezu
Formal	やさがしします	yasagashi shimasu
Perfective	やさがしした	yasagashi shita
Conjunctive	やさがしして	yasagashi shite
Hypothetical conditional	やさがしすれば	yasagashi sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative