乗り換える

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: S
Alternative spelling
乘り換える (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 乗り (nori, getting on, riding, from verb 乗る noru “to ride, to be on top of”) +‎ 換える (kaeru, to exchange, to change).[1]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「乗り換える
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
乗り換える りかえ
りかえる

Imperative (命令形) 乗り換えろ りかえ
りかえろ

Key constructions
Passive 乗り換えられる りかえられ
Causative 乗り換えさせる りかえさせ
Potential 乗り換えられる りかえられ
Volitional 乗り換えよう りかえよ
Negative 乗り換えない りかえない
Negative perfective 乗り換えなかった りかえなかった
Formal 乗り換えます りかえま
Perfective 乗り換えた りかえた
Conjunctive 乗り換えて りかえて
Hypothetical conditional 乗り換えれば りかえれば
りかえれば

Verb

()()える (norikaeruのりかへる (norikaferu)?transitive ichidan (stem ()() (norikae), past ()()えた (norikaeta))

  1. transfer, change (e.g., a bus or a train)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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