縮まる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちぢ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「縮まる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
縮まる ぢまる
Imperative (命令形) 縮まれ ぢまれ
Key constructions
Passive 縮まられる ぢまられる
Causative 縮まらせる ぢまらせる
Potential 縮まれる ぢまれる
Volitional 縮まろう ぢまろ
Negative 縮まらない ぢまらない
Negative perfective 縮まらなかった ぢまらなかった
Formal 縮まります ぢまりま
Perfective 縮まった ぢまった
Conjunctive 縮まって ぢまって
Hypothetical conditional 縮まれば ぢまれ

Verb

(ちぢ)まる (chijimaruintransitive godan (stem (ちぢ)まり (chijimari), past (ちぢ)まった (chijimatta))

Japanese verb pair
active 縮める
mediopassive 縮まる
  1. to shorten, to shrink
    寿命(じゅみょう)(ちぢ)まった
    jumyō ga chijimatta
    Shortened life span

Conjugation

References

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