食い下がる
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Kanji in this term | |
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食 | 下 |
く Grade: 2 |
さ Grade: 1 |
kun'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 食い (“連用形 (ren'yōkei) of the verb 食う (kū)”) + 下がる
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Tokyo) くいさがる [kùíságáꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
- (Tokyo) くいさがる [kùíságárú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [kɯ̟isa̠ɡa̠ɾɯ̟]
Verb
[edit]食い下がる • (kuisagaru) godan (stem 食い下がり (kuisagari), past 食い下がった (kuisagatta))
- to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
- Synonym: しがみつく
- to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
- (sumo) to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of "食い下がる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
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Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 食い下がら | くいさがら | kuisagara |
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 食い下がり | くいさがり | kuisagari |
Shūshikei ("terminal") | 食い下がる | くいさがる | kuisagaru |
Rentaikei ("attributive") | 食い下がる | くいさがる | kuisagaru |
Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 食い下がれ | くいさがれ | kuisagare |
Meireikei ("imperative") | 食い下がれ | くいさがれ | kuisagare |
Key constructions | |||
Passive | 食い下がられる | くいさがられる | kuisagarareru |
Causative | 食い下がらせる 食い下がらす |
くいさがらせる くいさがらす |
kuisagaraseru kuisagarasu |
Potential | 食い下がれる | くいさがれる | kuisagareru |
Volitional | 食い下がろう | くいさがろう | kuisagarō |
Negative | 食い下がらない | くいさがらない | kuisagaranai |
Negative continuative | 食い下がらず | くいさがらず | kuisagarazu |
Formal | 食い下がります | くいさがります | kuisagarimasu |
Perfective | 食い下がった | くいさがった | kuisagatta |
Conjunctive | 食い下がって | くいさがって | kuisagatte |
Hypothetical conditional | 食い下がれば | くいさがれば | kuisagareba |
References
[edit]Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 食 read as く
- Japanese terms spelled with 下 read as さ
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese verbs
- Japanese godan verbs
- Japanese godan verbs ending with -ru
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Sumo