憎む

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
憎
にく
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
憎む (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「憎む」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形) 		憎む にくむ
Imperative (命令形) 憎め にくめ
Key constructions
Passive 憎まれる にくまれる
Causative 憎ませる にくませる
Potential 憎める にくめる
Volitional 憎もう にくもー
Negative 憎まない にくまない
Negative perfective 憎まなかった にくまなかった
Formal 憎みます にくみます
Perfective 憎んだ にくんだ
Conjunctive 憎んで にくんで
Hypothetical conditional 憎めば にくめば

Verb

憎(にく)む • (nikumu) godan (stem 憎(にく)み (nikumi), past 憎(にく)んだ (nikunda))

  1. to hate, to detest, to abhor

Conjugation

Conjugation of "憎む" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 憎ま にくま nikuma
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 憎み にくみ nikumi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 憎む にくむ nikumu
Rentaikei ("attributive") 憎む にくむ nikumu
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 憎め にくめ nikume
Meireikei ("imperative") 憎め にくめ nikume
Key constructions
Passive 憎まれる にくまれる nikumareru
Causative 憎ませる
憎ます 		にくませる
にくます 		nikumaseru
nikumasu
Potential 憎める にくめる nikumeru
Volitional 憎もう にくもう nikumō
Negative 憎まない にくまない nikumanai
Negative continuative 憎まず にくまず nikumazu
Formal 憎みます にくみます nikumimasu
Perfective 憎んだ にくんだ nikunda
Conjunctive 憎んで にくんで nikunde
Hypothetical conditional 憎めば にくめば nikumeba

Antonyms

See also

References

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