引っ掛かる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2

Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
引っかかる
引っ掛る
引っ懸かる
引っ懸る

Etymology

Sound shift from ひきかかる (hikikakaru).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「引っ掛かる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
引っ掛かる っかか
Imperative (命令形) 引っ掛かれ っかか
Key constructions
Passive 引っ掛かられる っかかられ
Causative 引っ掛からせる っかからせ
Potential - - -
Volitional 引っ掛かろう っかかろ
Negative 引っ掛からない っかからない
Negative perfective 引っ掛からなかった っかからなかった
Formal 引っ掛かります っかかりま
Perfective 引っ掛かった っかかった
Conjunctive 引っ掛かって っかかって
Hypothetical conditional 引っ掛かれば っかかれば

Verb

()()かる (hikkakaruintransitive godan (stem ()()かり (hikkakari), past ()()かった (hikkakatta))

  1. to snag onto; to catch on
  2. (figuratively) to fall for; to be tricked

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN