具現

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
具 現
ぐ
Grade: 3 		げん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

具(ぐ)現(げん) • (gugen) 

  1. (literary) realization, manifestation
    愛(あい)の具(ぐ)現(げん)
    ai no gugen
    personification of love

Derived terms

Verb

具(ぐ)現(げん)する • (gugen suru) transitive or intransitive suru (stem 具(ぐ)現(げん)し (gugen shi), past 具(ぐ)現(げん)した (gugen shita))

  1. (literary) to realize, to materialize
    • 2015, “ワイツゼッカー氏死去”, in 朝日新聞デジタル‎, archived from the original on 4 May 2015:
      ドイツの戦(せん)後(ご)の歩(あゆ)みを一(いっ)身(しん)に具(ぐ)現(げん)するような政(せい)治(じ)家(か)だった。
      Doitsu no sengo no ayumi o isshin ni gugensuru yō na seijika datta.
      He was a politician who embodied Germany's postwar history.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "具現する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 具現し ぐげんし gugen shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 具現し ぐげんし gugen shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 具現する ぐげんする gugen suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 具現する ぐげんする gugen suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 具現すれ ぐげんすれ gugen sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 具現せよ¹
具現しろ² 		ぐげんせよ¹
ぐげんしろ² 		gugen seyo¹
gugen shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 具現される ぐげんされる gugen sareru
Causative 具現させる
具現さす 		ぐげんさせる
ぐげんさす 		gugen saseru
gugen sasu
Potential 具現できる ぐげんできる gugen dekiru
Volitional 具現しよう ぐげんしよう gugen shiyō
Negative 具現しない ぐげんしない gugen shinai
Negative continuative 具現せず ぐげんせず gugen sezu
Formal 具現します ぐげんします gugen shimasu
Perfective 具現した ぐげんした gugen shita
Conjunctive 具現して ぐげんして gugen shite
Hypothetical conditional 具現すれば ぐげんすれば gugen sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Korean

Hanja in this term
具現

Noun

具現 • (guhyeon) (hangeul 구현)

  1. hanja form? of 구현 (“realization, manifestation”)
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