横たわる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
よこ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
橫たわる (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「横たわる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
横たわる こたわ
Imperative (命令形) 横たわれ こたわ
Key constructions
Passive 横たわられる こたわられ
Causative 横たわらせる こたわらせ
Potential 横たわれる こたわれ
Volitional 横たわろう こたわろ
Negative 横たわらない こたわらない
Negative perfective 横たわらなかった こたわらなかった
Formal 横たわります こたわりま
Perfective 横たわった こたわった
Conjunctive 横たわって こたわって
Hypothetical conditional 横たわれば こたわれば

Verb

(よこ)たわる (yokotawaruよこたはる (yokotafaru)?intransitive godan (stem (よこ)たわり (yokotawari), past (よこ)たわった (yokotawatta))

Japanese verb pair
active (よこ)たえる
mediopassive (よこ)たわる
  1. to lie down

Conjugation

References

  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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN