生き返る

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
かえ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 生き (iki, living, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 生きる ikiru, “to live, to be alive”) +‎ 返る (kaeru, to come back to, to return to, to be returned to).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「生き返る
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
生き返る きかえる
Imperative (命令形) 生き返れ きかえれ
Key constructions
Passive 生き返られる きかえられ
Causative 生き返らせる きかえらせ
Potential 生き返れる きかえれ
Volitional 生き返ろう きかえろ
Negative 生き返らない きかえらない
Negative perfective 生き返らなかった きかえらなかった
Formal 生き返ります きかえりま
Perfective 生き返った きかえった
Conjunctive 生き返って きかえって
Hypothetical conditional 生き返れば きかえれば

Verb

()(かえ) (ikikaeruintransitive godan (stem ()(かえ) (ikikaeri), past ()(かえ)った (ikikaetta))

  1. to return to life, to be revived, to be restored to life

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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. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN