命じる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
めい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Shift from verb (めい)ずる (meizuru), by natural progression from サ行変格活用 (sagyō henkaku katsuyō, s-irregular conjugation) verbs ending in -uru to 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō, upper monograde conjugation) verbs ending in -iru.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "命じる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
命じる ーじる
Imperative (命令形) 命じろ ーじろ
Key constructions
Passive 命じられる ーじられる
Causative 命じさせる ーじさせる
Potential 命じられる ーじられる
Volitional 命じよう ーじよ
Negative 命じない ーじない
Negative perfective 命じなかった ーじなかった
Formal 命じます ーじま
Perfective 命じた ーじた
Conjunctive 命じて ーじて
Hypothetical conditional 命じれば ーじれ

Verb

(めい)じる (meijirutransitive ichidan (stem (めい) (meiji), past (めい)じた (meijita))

  1. order, command

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →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 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN