脅威

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
脅 威
きょう
Grade: S 		い
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

脅(きょう)威(い) • (kyōi) 

  1. threat; menace
    核拡散(かくかくさん)は今世紀最大(こんせいきさいだい)の軍事上(ぐんじじょう)の脅威(きょうい)である。
    Kaku kakusan wa konseiki saidai no gunji-jō no kyōi de aru.
    Nuclear proliferation poses the most serious military threat in this century.

Verb

脅(きょう)威(い)する • (kyōi suru) suru (stem 脅(きょう)威(い)し (kyōi shi), past 脅(きょう)威(い)した (kyōi shita))

  1. to threaten

Conjugation

Conjugation of "脅威する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 脅威し きょういし kyōi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 脅威し きょういし kyōi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 脅威する きょういする kyōi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 脅威する きょういする kyōi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 脅威すれ きょういすれ kyōi sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 脅威せよ¹
脅威しろ² 		きょういせよ¹
きょういしろ² 		kyōi seyo¹
kyōi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 脅威される きょういされる kyōi sareru
Causative 脅威させる
脅威さす 		きょういさせる
きょういさす 		kyōi saseru
kyōi sasu
Potential 脅威できる きょういできる kyōi dekiru
Volitional 脅威しよう きょういしよう kyōi shiyō
Negative 脅威しない きょういしない kyōi shinai
Negative continuative 脅威せず きょういせず kyōi sezu
Formal 脅威します きょういします kyōi shimasu
Perfective 脅威した きょういした kyōi shita
Conjunctive 脅威して きょういして kyōi shite
Hypothetical conditional 脅威すれば きょういすれば kyōi 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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