ウオッチ

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Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from English watch.

Pronunciation

Noun

ウオッチ • (uotchi) 

  1. a watch (portable or wearable timepiece)
    Hyponyms: 腕時計 (ude-dokei), 懐中時計 (kaichū-dokei)
    妖(よう)怪(かい)ウオッチ
    Yōkai Uotchi
    Yo-kai Watch
  2. a watchman, observer
  3. a watch (person who guards, sailors or officers with common period of duty, etc.)
    Synonyms: 当直 (tōchoku), 見張り (mihari), ワッチ (watchi)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Verb

ウオッチする • (uotchi suru) suru (stem ウオッチし (uotchisuru shi), past ウオッチした (uotchisuru shita))

  1. to observe, keep watch
    Synonyms: 観察する (kansatsu suru), 注視する (chūshi suru)

Conjugation

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

² Spoken imperative

See also

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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