覚ます

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
覺ます (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「覚ます
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
覚ます
Imperative (命令形) 覚ませ
Key constructions
Passive 覚まされる まされ
Causative 覚まさせる まさせ
Potential 覚ませる ませ
Volitional 覚まそう まそ
Negative 覚まさない まさない
Negative perfective 覚まさなかった まさなかった
Formal 覚まします ましま
Perfective 覚ました した
Conjunctive 覚まして して
Hypothetical conditional 覚ませば せば

Verb

()ます (samasutransitive godan (stem ()まし (samashi), past ()ました (samashita))

Japanese verb pair
active 覚ます
mediopassive 覚める
  1. to wake, to rouse from sleep or drunk
  2. to make conscious

Conjugation

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References

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