巡る

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
めぐ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
回る
廻る

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「巡る
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
巡る ぐる
Imperative (命令形) 巡れ ぐれ
Key constructions
Passive 巡られる ぐられる
Causative 巡らせる ぐらせる
Potential 巡れる ぐれる
Volitional 巡ろう ぐろ
Negative 巡らない ぐらない
Negative perfective 巡らなかった ぐらなかった
Formal 巡ります ぐりま
Perfective 巡った ぐった
Conjunctive 巡って ぐって
Hypothetical conditional 巡れば ぐれ

Verb

(めぐ) (meguruintransitive godan (stem (めぐ) (meguri), past (めぐ)った (megutta))

  1. go around, travel around
  2. circle, surround
  3. return, repeat
  4. concern (usually in the form of + めぐる or めぐって)
    (むかし)、アメリカでは()(れい)(せい)()などの問題(もんだい)めぐって(なん)()(ほく)()(たたか)った。
    Mukashi, amerika de wa dorei seido nado no mondai o megutte, nanbu to hokubu ga tatakatta.
    Long time ago, the Southern and Northern US fought over issues such as slavery.

Conjugation

References

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