うなずく

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
頷く
首肯く
肯く
点頭く

Etymology

Thought to be from (うな) (una-, of the neck or nape) + () (tsuku, to poke, to push, to jab, to prod).[1][2] The tsuku changes to zuku as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「うなずく
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
うなずく なず
なずく

Imperative (命令形) うなずけ なず
なずけ

Key constructions
Passive うなずかれる なずかれ
なずかれる

Causative うなずかせる なずかせ
なずかせる

Potential うなずける なずけ
なずける

Volitional うなずこう なずこ
Negative うなずかない なずかない
なずかない

Negative perfective うなずかなかった なずかなかった
なずかなかった

Formal うなずきます なずきま
Perfective うなずいた なずいた
なずいた

Conjunctive うなずいて なずいて
なずいて

Hypothetical conditional うなずけば なずけば
なずけ

Verb

うなずく or うなづく (unazukuうなづく (unaduku)?intransitive godan (stem うなずき (unazuki), past うなずいた (unazuita))

  1. to nod, to move one's head down in agreement

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 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