頼む

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
たの
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
賴む (kyūjitai)
恃む
憑む

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "頼む"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
頼む
Imperative (命令形) 頼め
Key constructions
Passive 頼まれる のまれ
Causative 頼ませる のませ
Potential 頼める のめ
Volitional 頼もう のも
Negative 頼まない のまない
Negative perfective 頼まなかった のまなかった
Formal 頼みます のみま
Perfective 頼んだ んだ
Conjunctive 頼んで んで
Hypothetical conditional 頼めば めば

Verb

(たの) (tanomutransitive godan (stem (たの) (tanomi), past (たの)んだ (tanonda))

  1. ask someone to do something
  2. to call; to order; to reserve
  3. 恃む: to rely on

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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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN