間違う

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
ちが
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「間違う
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
間違う ちが
Imperative (命令形) 間違え ちが
Key constructions
Passive 間違われる ちがわれ
Causative 間違わせる ちがわせ
Potential - - -
Volitional 間違おう ちがお
Negative 間違わない ちがわない
Negative perfective 間違わなかった ちがわなかった
Formal 間違います ちがいま
Perfective 間違った ちがった
Conjunctive 間違って ちがって
Hypothetical conditional 間違えば ちがえば

Verb

()(ちが) (machigauまちがふ (matigafu)?transitive or intransitive godan (stem ()(ちが) (machigai), past ()(ちが)った (machigatta))

Japanese verb pair
active 間違える
mediopassive 間違う
  1. to be wrong; to be incorrect
    ()(ちが)った(かんが)(かた)
    machigatta kangaekata
    an incorrect way of thinking
    この()(がみ)(じゅう)(しょ)()(ちが)っている
    Kono tegami wa jūsho ga machigatte iru.
    The address on this letter is wrong.
  2. to make a mistake; to err
    (けい)(さん)()(ちが)った
    Keisan o machigatta.
    I made a mistake in calculating.
  3. to confuse, to mistake something for something else

Conjugation

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.