訴える

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
うった
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

/urutapu//uttafu//uttaheru//uttaeru/

Attested in the historical record since at least the early Heian period.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "訴える"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
訴える ったえ
ったえる

Imperative (命令形) 訴えろ ったえ
ったえろ

Key constructions
Passive 訴えられる ったえられ
Causative 訴えさせる ったえさせ
Potential 訴えられる ったえられ
Volitional 訴えよう ったえよ
Negative 訴えない ったえない
ったえない

Negative perfective 訴えなかった ったえなかった
ったえなかった

Formal 訴えます ったえま
Perfective 訴えた ったえた
Conjunctive 訴えて ったえて
Hypothetical conditional 訴えれば ったえれば
ったえれば

Verb

(うった)える (uttaerutransitive ichidan (stem (うった) (uttae), past (うった)えた (uttaeta))

  1. to sue
  2. to complain
  3. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    (じょう)(うった)える
    jō ni uttaeru
    to make an appeal to emotion

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN