追い付く

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
追付く
追い着く
追着く

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「追い付く
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
追い付く いつ
Imperative (命令形) 追い付け いつ
Key constructions
Passive 追い付かれる いつかれ
Causative 追い付かせる いつかせ
Potential 追い付ける いつけ
Volitional 追い付こう いつこ
Negative 追い付かない いつかない
Negative perfective 追い付かなかった いつかなかった
Formal 追い付きます いつきま
Perfective 追い付いた いついた
Conjunctive 追い付いて いついて
Hypothetical conditional 追い付けば いつけば

Verb

()() (oitsukuおひつく (ofituku)?intransitive godan (stem ()() (oitsuki), past ()()いた (oitsuita))

  1. to overtake, to catch up
  2. (chiefly in the negative) to compensate

Conjugation

References

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