決壊

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See also: 決潰 and 决溃

Japanese

Kanji in this term
決 壊
けつ > けっ
Grade: 3 		かい
Grade: S
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
決潰 (dated)

Etymology

壊 is a daiyōji replacing 潰.

Pronunciation

Noun

決(けっ)壊(かい) • (kekkai) 

  1. collapse
    ダム決壊(けっかい)の原因(げんいん)は、建設資金(けんせつしきん)の横流(よこなが)しにある。
    Damu kekkai no gen'in wa, kensetsu shikin no yokonagashi ni aru.
    The cause of the dam collapse is corruption.

Verb

決(けっ)壊(かい)する • (kekkai suru) suru (stem 決(けっ)壊(かい)し (kekkai shi), past 決(けっ)壊(かい)した (kekkai shita))

  1. to collapse
    ダムが決壊(けっかい)した。
    Damu ga kekkai shita.
    The dam collapsed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "決壊する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 決壊し けっかいし kekkai shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 決壊し けっかいし kekkai shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 決壊する けっかいする kekkai suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 決壊する けっかいする kekkai suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 決壊すれ けっかいすれ kekkai sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 決壊せよ¹
決壊しろ² 		けっかいせよ¹
けっかいしろ² 		kekkai seyo¹
kekkai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 決壊される けっかいされる kekkai sareru
Causative 決壊させる
決壊さす 		けっかいさせる
けっかいさす 		kekkai saseru
kekkai sasu
Potential 決壊できる けっかいできる kekkai dekiru
Volitional 決壊しよう けっかいしよう kekkai shiyō
Negative 決壊しない けっかいしない kekkai shinai
Negative continuative 決壊せず けっかいせず kekkai sezu
Formal 決壊します けっかいします kekkai shimasu
Perfective 決壊した けっかいした kekkai shita
Conjunctive 決壊して けっかいして kekkai shite
Hypothetical conditional 決壊すれば けっかいすれば kekkai sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

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
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