打つ

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *utu. Cognate with Miyako 打つぃ (utsï).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "打つ"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
打つ
Imperative (命令形) 打て
Key constructions
Passive 打たれる たれ
Causative 打たせる たせ
Potential 打てる
Volitional 打とう
Negative 打たない ない
Negative perfective 打たなかった なかった
Formal 打ちます ちま
Perfective 打った った
Conjunctive 打って って
Hypothetical conditional 打てば てば

Verb

() (utsutransitive godan (stem () (uchi), past ()った (utta))

  1. to hit, to beat, to strike
    (おや)ぶたれるoya ni butareruto be hit by a parent
    (かべ)(あたま)()ってしまった
    Kabe ni atama o utteshimatta.
    I've hit my head on the wall.
  2. (baseball) to hit
    ヒットを()hitto o utsuto make a hit
    ホームランを()hōmuran o utsuto hit a home run
  3. (computing) to type
    キーボードを()kībōdo o utsuto use a keyboard
    (ちょう)(ぶん)()chōbun o utsuto type out a long passage
    ()()()moji o utsuto type text
  4. (shogi) to drop
  5. (cooking) to make noodles
    Hypernym: 作る (tsukuru)
    うどん()udon o utsuto make udon
    ()()うどんteuchi udonhandmade udon
  6. (medicine) to administer a shot
    (ちゅう)(しゃ)()chūsha o utsuto administer an injection
Conjugation
Hypernyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Shift from () (utsu).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "打つ"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
打つ
Imperative (命令形) 打て
Key constructions
Passive 打たれる たれ
Causative 打たせる たせ
Potential 打てる
Volitional 打とう
Negative 打たない ない
Negative perfective 打たなかった なかった
Formal 打ちます ちま
Perfective 打った った
Conjunctive 打って って
Hypothetical conditional 打てば てば

Verb

() (butsutransitive godan (stem () (buchi), past ()った (butta))

  1. to hit, to beat, to strike
  2. to give a speech
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. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Second edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō