鎮火

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
鎮 火
ちん
Grade: S 		か
Grade: 1
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
鎭火 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

鎮(ちん)火(か) • (chinka) 

  1. extinguishing of a fire

Verb

鎮(ちん)火(か)する • (chinka suru) suru (stem 鎮(ちん)火(か)し (chinka shi), past 鎮(ちん)火(か)した (chinka shita))

  1. (of a fire) be extinguished; be put out
    • 1936, 海野十三, 雷:
      油店(あぶらてん)からの火災(かさい)も、附近数百(ふきんすうひゃく)を焼(や)いただけで、それ以上延焼(いじょうえんしょう)することもなく幸(さいわ)いに鎮火(ちんか)した。
      Aburaten kara no kasai mo, fukin sū hyaku o yaita dake de, sore ijō enshō suru koto mo naku saiwai ni chinka shita.
      The conflagration that started at the cooking oil store burned several hundred buildings around it, and it's lucky it was extinguished before it spread further.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "鎮火する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 鎮火し ちんかし chinka shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 鎮火し ちんかし chinka shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 鎮火する ちんかする chinka suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 鎮火する ちんかする chinka suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 鎮火すれ ちんかすれ chinka sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 鎮火せよ¹
鎮火しろ² 		ちんかせよ¹
ちんかしろ² 		chinka seyo¹
chinka shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 鎮火される ちんかされる chinka sareru
Causative 鎮火させる
鎮火さす 		ちんかさせる
ちんかさす 		chinka saseru
chinka sasu
Potential 鎮火できる ちんかできる chinka dekiru
Volitional 鎮火しよう ちんかしよう chinka shiyō
Negative 鎮火しない ちんかしない chinka shinai
Negative continuative 鎮火せず ちんかせず chinka sezu
Formal 鎮火します ちんかします chinka shimasu
Perfective 鎮火した ちんかした chinka shita
Conjunctive 鎮火して ちんかして chinka shite
Hypothetical conditional 鎮火すれば ちんかすれば chinka 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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