召し上がる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 召し (meshi, taking”, stem of Old Japanese honorific verb mesu, “to see, to look at”, by extension an honorific for “to take, to eat) +‎ 上がる (agaru, to rise”, used honorifically to mean “to take up, to eat).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "召し上がる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
召し上がる しあがる
Imperative (命令形) 召し上がれ しあがれ
Key constructions
Passive 召し上がられる しあがられる
Causative 召し上がらせる しあがらせる
Potential 召し上がれる しあがれる
Volitional 召し上がろう しあがろ
Negative 召し上がらない しあがらない
Negative perfective 召し上がらなかった しあがらなかった
Formal 召し上がります しあがりま
Perfective 召し上がった しあがった
Conjunctive 召し上がって しあがって
Hypothetical conditional 召し上がれば しあがれ

Verb

()()がる (meshiagarutransitive godan (stem ()()がり (meshiagari), past ()()がった (meshiagatta))

  1. (honorific) to eat

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