区切る

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
き > ぎ
Grade: 2
jūbakoyomi
Alternative spellings
區切る (kyūjitai)
句切る

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「区切る
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
区切る
Imperative (命令形) 区切れ
Key constructions
Passive 区切られる ぎられ
Causative 区切らせる ぎらせ
Potential 区切れる ぎれ
Volitional 区切ろう ぎろ
Negative 区切らない ぎらない
Negative perfective 区切らなかった ぎらなかった
Formal 区切ります ぎりま
Perfective 区切った った
Conjunctive 区切って って
Hypothetical conditional 区切れば れば

Verb

()() (kugirutransitive godan (stem ()() (kugiri), past ()()った (kugitta))

  1. to mark off, to demarcate, to delimit
  2. 句切る: to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)​
    一句(いっく)ずつ句切(くぎ)って()
    ikku zutsu kugitte yomu
    to pause between every sentence/to read sentence by sentence

Conjugation