営む

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
いとな
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
營む (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "営む"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
営む とな
Imperative (命令形) 営め とな
Key constructions
Passive 営まれる となまれ
Causative 営ませる となませ
Potential 営める となめ
Volitional 営もう となも
Negative 営まない となまない
Negative perfective 営まなかった となまなかった
Formal 営みます となみま
Perfective 営んだ となんだ
Conjunctive 営んで となんで
Hypothetical conditional 営めば となめば

Verb

(いとな) (itonamutransitive godan (stem (いとな) (itonami), past (いとな)んだ (itonanda))

  1. run (a business), keep (a store), carry on (operations)
    (かれ)事業(じぎょう)大規模(だいきぼ)(いとな)んでいる。
    Kare wa jigyō o daikiboni itonande iru.
    He is running a business on a large scale.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN