激しい

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
はげ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
烈しい
劇しい

Etymology

Cognate with the verb 励む (hagemu).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "激しい"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 激しく しく
げし

Terminal (終止形) 激しい げし
Attributive (連体形) 激しい げし
Key constructions
Informal negative 激しくない しくない
げしくない

Informal past 激しかった しかった
げしかった

Informal negative past 激しくなかった しくなかった
げしくなかった

Formal 激しいです げしいです
Conjunctive 激しくて しくて
げしくて

Conditional 激しければ しければ
げしければ

Adjective

(はげ)しい (hageshii-i (adverbial (はげ)しく (hageshiku))

  1. severe
  2. intense, acute, extreme
  3. violent

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN