蠢く

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
蠢
うごめ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Etymology

うご (ugo, an ideophone also found in the verb 動(うご)く (ugoku) and the adverb うごうご (ugougo)) + めく (-meku, “to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like”, a verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

蠢(うごめ)く • (ugomeku) intransitive godan (stem 蠢(うごめ)き (ugomeki), past 蠢(うごめ)いた (ugomeita))

  1. squirm

Conjugation

Conjugation of "蠢く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 蠢か うごめか ugomeka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 蠢き うごめき ugomeki
Shūshikei ("terminal") 蠢く うごめく ugomeku
Rentaikei ("attributive") 蠢く うごめく ugomeku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 蠢け うごめけ ugomeke
Meireikei ("imperative") 蠢け うごめけ ugomeke
Key constructions
Passive 蠢かれる うごめかれる ugomekareru
Causative 蠢かせる
蠢かす 		うごめかせる
うごめかす 		ugomekaseru
ugomekasu
Potential 蠢ける うごめける ugomekeru
Volitional 蠢こう うごめこう ugomekō
Negative 蠢かない うごめかない ugomekanai
Negative continuative 蠢かず うごめかず ugomekazu
Formal 蠢きます うごめきます ugomekimasu
Perfective 蠢いた うごめいた ugomeita
Conjunctive 蠢いて うごめいて ugomeite
Hypothetical conditional 蠢けば うごめけば ugomekeba

References

  1. ^ “蠢く”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  4. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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