眠い

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
ねむ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "眠い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 眠く むく
Terminal (終止形) 眠い むい

Attributive (連体形) 眠い むい
Key constructions
Informal negative 眠くない むくな
Informal past 眠かった かった
Informal negative past 眠くなかった むくなかった
Formal 眠いです いです
Conjunctive 眠くて くて
Conditional 眠ければ ければ

Adjective

(ねむ) (nemui-i (adverbial (ねむ) (nemuku))

  1. sleepy
    (ねむ)なるnemuku naruto get/become sleepy
    (ねむ)そう()()nemusō na me de miruto look with sleepy eyes
    • 1926, Yumeji Takehisa, Yoru [Night]‎:
      「だってあたし(ねむ)くないの」
      “Datte atashi nemukunai no”
      "But I'm not sleepy."
  2. drowsy
    (ねむ)くてたまらない。
    Nemukute tamaranai.
    I'm feeling so drowsy.

Inflection

Synonyms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.