めくるめく

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Japanese

Alternative spelling
目眩く

Alternative forms

Etymology

め (me, “eye”) + 眩(くるめ)く (kurumeku, from くる (kuru, an ideophone[1]) + めく (-meku, “to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like”, a verb-forming suffix))

Pronunciation

Verb

めくるめく • (mekurumeku) ←めくるめく (mekurumeku)?intransitive godan (stem めくるめき (mekurumeki), past めくるめいた (mekurumeita))

  1. (chiefly adnominal) to become dizzy
    めくるめく高(たか)さ
    mekurumeku takasa
    dizzying height
    (literally, “height where one becomes dizzy”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "めくるめく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") めくるめか mekurumeka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") めくるめき mekurumeki
Shūshikei ("terminal") めくるめく mekurumeku
Rentaikei ("attributive") めくるめく mekurumeku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") めくるめけ mekurumeke
Meireikei ("imperative") めくるめけ mekurumeke
Key constructions
Passive めくるめかれる mekurumekareru
Causative めくるめかせる
めくるめかす 		mekurumekaseru
mekurumekasu
Potential めくるめける mekurumekeru
Volitional めくるめこう mekurumekō
Negative めくるめかない mekurumekanai
Negative continuative めくるめかず mekurumekazu
Formal めくるめきます mekurumekimasu
Perfective めくるめいた mekurumeita
Conjunctive めくるめいて mekurumeite
Hypothetical conditional めくるめけば mekurumekeba

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (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 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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