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Japanese
Etymology 1
Adjective
うし • (ushi) †-ku
- 憂し: Classical Japanese form of 憂い (ui, “sad”)
Conjugation
| Stem forms
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| Irrealis (未然形)
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うく
うから |
uku
ukara
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| Continuative (連用形)
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うく
うかり |
uku
ukari
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| Terminal (終止形)
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うし |
usi
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| Attributive (連体形)
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うき
うかる |
uki
ukaru
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| Realis (已然形)
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うけれ |
ukere
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| Imperative (命令形)
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うかれ |
ukare
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| Key constructions
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| Negative
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うからず |
ukarazu
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| Contrasting conjunction
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うけれど |
ukeredo
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| Causal conjunction
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うければ |
ukereba
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| Conditional conjunction
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うくば |
ukuba
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| Past tense (firsthand knowledge)
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うかりき |
ukariki
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| Past tense (secondhand knowledge)
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うかりけり |
ukarikeri
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| Adverbial
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うく |
uku
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Without auxiliary verb.
With auxiliary verb.
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of うし – see the following entries.
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| 【大人】
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- (honorific) a lord, a landowner
- an honorific form of reference for a scholar or teacher, or one's own father
- an honorific form of reference for the addressee
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| 【齲歯】
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- Synonym of 虫歯 (mushiba, “dental caries”)
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(This term, うし (ushi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as うし, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うし.)
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Okinawan
Noun
うし (ushi)
- 牛: cow