ぞっと

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Japanese

Adverb

ぞっと or ゾッと • (zotto) 

  1. shuddering from fear, having the creeps, being disgusted
    Synonym: ぞくぞく (zokuzoku)
    • 2021, Rotten Tomatoes, editors, Itoshi no ‘rotten’ eiga tachi [Beloved ‘rotten’ movies], page 133:
      『ストレンジャーズ　戦(せん)慄(りつ)の訪(ほう)問(もん)者(しゃ)』は、心(しん)底(そこ)ぞっとなる場(ば)面(めん)が数(すう)箇(か)所(しょ)あるが、標(ひょう)準(じゅん)的(てき)なスラッシャー映(えい)画(が)以(い)上(じょう)のできに押(お)しあがるまでにはいたらなかった。
      “Sutorenjāzu Senritsu no hōmonsha” wa, shinsoko zotto naru bamen ga sūkasho aru ga, hyōjunteki na surasshā eiga ijō no deki ni oshi agaru made ni wa itaranakatta.
      The Strangers has a few sincerely creepy scenes, but it fails to rise above the level of a standard slasher film.

Verb

ぞっとする • (zotto suru) suru (stem ぞっとし (zotto shi), past ぞっとした (zotto shita))

  1. to shudder from fear, to have the creeps, to be disgusted
    見(み)るだけでぞっとする。
    Miru dake de zotto suru.
    Just looking at it gives me the creeps.
    • 2004, “Kowagaru koto o narai ni tabi ni deta hito no hanashi [The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was]”, in Yamaguchi Shirō, transl., Gurimu dōwa [Grimm’s fairy tales], volume 3, page 120:
      「うわあっ、ぞっとする、ぞっとする。妃(きさき)や!いやはや、これでわかったぞ！ぞっとするとはどういうことか！」
      “Uwā', zotto suru, zotto suru. Kisaki ya! iyahaya, kore de wakatta zo! Zotto suru to wa dō iu koto ka!”
      “Aah, I shudder, I shudder. Oh my queen, oh now I understand! Is this what shuddering is!”

Conjugation

Conjugation of "ぞっとする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") ぞっとし zotto shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") ぞっとし zotto shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") ぞっとする zotto suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") ぞっとする zotto suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") ぞっとすれ zotto sure
Meireikei ("imperative") ぞっとせよ¹
ぞっとしろ² 		zotto seyo¹
zotto shiro²
Key constructions
Passive ぞっとされる zotto sareru
Causative ぞっとさせる
ぞっとさす 		zotto saseru
zotto sasu
Potential ぞっとできる zotto dekiru
Volitional ぞっとしよう zotto shiyō
Negative ぞっとしない zotto shinai
Negative continuative ぞっとせず zotto sezu
Formal ぞっとします zotto shimasu
Perfective ぞっとした zotto shita
Conjunctive ぞっとして zotto shite
Hypothetical conditional ぞっとすれば zotto sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

See also

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