吠える

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
吼える

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pəyu. Cognate with Kunigami 吠いるん (ぶいるん, buirun), Miyako 吠いㇲ゙ (ぶいㇲ゙, buiz).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「吠える
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
吠える
Imperative (命令形) 吠えろ
Key constructions
Passive 吠えられる えられ
Causative 吠えさせる えさせ
Potential 吠えられる えられ
Volitional 吠えよう えよ
Negative 吠えない ない
Negative perfective 吠えなかった なかった
Formal 吠えます えま
Perfective 吠えた えた
Conjunctive 吠えて えて
Hypothetical conditional 吠えれば れば

Verb

()える (hoeruintransitive ichidan (stem () (hoe), past ()えた (hoeta))

  1. to bark, to howl (of beasts)
  2. to shout, to roar

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN