くっ付く

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
付
つ
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) くっつく (Nakadaka – )
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Verb

くっ付(つ)く • (kuttsuku) intransitive godan (stem くっ付(つ)き (kuttsuki), past くっ付(つ)いた (kuttsuita))

  1. cling to, adhere, stick fast
    画(が)面(めん)にくっついた髪(かみ)の毛(け)
    gamen ni kuttsuita kami-no-ke
    hair that has stuck to the screen
    接(せつ)尾(び)辞(じ)がくっつくと発(はつ)音(おん)が変(か)わります。
    Setsubiji ga kuttsuku to hatsuon ga kawarimasu.
    The pronunciation changes when a suffix sticks to the end.
  2. keep close to someone, follow
  3. date, go out, be involved with someone romantically

Conjugation

Conjugation of "くっ付く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") くっ付か くっつか kuttsuka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") くっ付き くっつき kuttsuki
Shūshikei ("terminal") くっ付く くっつく kuttsuku
Rentaikei ("attributive") くっ付く くっつく kuttsuku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") くっ付け くっつけ kuttsuke
Meireikei ("imperative") くっ付け くっつけ kuttsuke
Key constructions
Passive くっ付かれる くっつかれる kuttsukareru
Causative くっ付かせる
くっ付かす 		くっつかせる
くっつかす 		kuttsukaseru
kuttsukasu
Potential くっ付ける くっつける kuttsukeru
Volitional くっ付こう くっつこう kuttsukō
Negative くっ付かない くっつかない kuttsukanai
Negative continuative くっ付かず くっつかず kuttsukazu
Formal くっ付きます くっつきます kuttsukimasu
Perfective くっ付いた くっついた kuttsuita
Conjunctive くっ付いて くっついて kuttsuite
Hypothetical conditional くっ付けば くっつけば kuttsukeba

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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