住む

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
棲む
栖む

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「住む
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
住む
Imperative (命令形) 住め
Key constructions
Passive 住まれる まれ
Causative 住ませる ませ
Potential 住める
Volitional 住もう
Negative 住まない ない
Negative perfective 住まなかった なかった
Formal 住みます みま
Perfective 住んだ んだ
Conjunctive 住んで んで
Hypothetical conditional 住めば めば

Verb

() (sumuintransitive godan (stem () (sumi), past ()んだ (sunda))

  1. to live in, to inhabit, to abide at, to dwell at
    (わたし)日本(にほん)()んでいます。
    Watashi wa Nihon ni sunde imasu.
    I house in Japan.
    (わたし)はかつてアイスランドに()んだことがある。
    Watashi wa katsute Aisurando ni sunda koto ga aru.
    I once lived in Iceland.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN