捕らえる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
捕える
捉える

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "捕らえる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
捕らえる らえ
Imperative (命令形) 捕らえろ らえ
Key constructions
Passive 捕らえられる らえられ
Causative 捕らえさせる らえさせ
Potential 捕らえられる らえられ
Volitional 捕らえよう らえよ
Negative 捕らえない らえない
Negative perfective 捕らえなかった らえなかった
Formal 捕らえます らえま
Perfective 捕らえた えた
Conjunctive 捕らえて えて
Hypothetical conditional 捕らえれば らえれば

Verb

()らえる (toraerutransitive ichidan (stem ()らえ (torae), past ()らえた (toraeta))

Japanese verb pair
active 捕らえる
mediopassive 囚われる
  1. grasp, seize, capture
    (くるま)(みせ)(とつ)(にゅう)防犯(ぼうはん)カメラ(とら)える
    kuruma de mise ni totsunyū bōhan kamera toraeru
    security camera captures store break-in by car (headlinese)
    (もの)(とら)(かた)
    mono no torae-kata
    way of looking at things

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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