抜く

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
抜
ぬ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
拔く (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「抜く」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形) 		抜く ぬく
Imperative (命令形) 抜け ぬけ
Key constructions
Passive 抜かれる ぬかれる
Causative 抜かせる ぬかせる
Potential 抜ける ぬける
Volitional 抜こう ぬこー
Negative 抜かない ぬかない
Negative perfective 抜かなかった ぬかなかった
Formal 抜きます ぬきます
Perfective 抜いた ぬいた
Conjunctive 抜いて ぬいて
Hypothetical conditional 抜けば ぬけば

Verb

抜(ぬ)く • (nuku) transitive godan (stem 抜(ぬ)き (nuki), past 抜(ぬ)いた (nuita))

Japanese verb pair
active 抜く
mediopassive 抜ける
  1. to extract (something), to take out
    歯(は)を抜(ぬ)く
    ha o nuku
    to pull a tooth
    • 1925, Motojirō Kajii, Lemon‎:
      自分(じぶん)が抜(ぬ)いたまま積(つ)み重(かさ)ねた本(ほん)の群(ぐん)
      jibun ga nuita mama tsumikasaneta hon no gun
      the group of books that piled up after I took them out and left them there
  2. to omit, to take out
    Synonym: はぶく (habuku)
    ヨナ抜(ぬ)き音階(おんかい)
    yo-na-nuki onkai
    musical scale omitting fa or ti
  3. to surpass
    • 2007, 新時代日漢辭典／新时代日汉辞典 (Xīn Shídài Rì-hàn Cídiǎn), 1st edition, 大新書局／大新书局 (Dàxīn Shūjú), →ISBN:
      トーナメントで五人(ごにん)抜(ぬ)いて優勝(ゆうしょう)した
      tōnamento de gonin nuite yūshōshita
      Surpassed five others in a tournament and won
  4. to disconnect a cable/wire
  5. (slang) to masturbate

Derived terms

Suffix

抜(ぬ)く • (-nuku) 

  1. to do (something) all the way to the end, to carry through

Conjugation

Conjugation of "抜く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 抜か ぬか nuka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 抜き ぬき nuki
Shūshikei ("terminal") 抜く ぬく nuku
Rentaikei ("attributive") 抜く ぬく nuku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 抜け ぬけ nuke
Meireikei ("imperative") 抜け ぬけ nuke
Key constructions
Passive 抜かれる ぬかれる nukareru
Causative 抜かせる
抜かす 		ぬかせる
ぬかす 		nukaseru
nukasu
Potential 抜ける ぬける nukeru
Volitional 抜こう ぬこう nukō
Negative 抜かない ぬかない nukanai
Negative continuative 抜かず ぬかず nukazu
Formal 抜きます ぬきます nukimasu
Perfective 抜いた ぬいた nuita
Conjunctive 抜いて ぬいて nuite
Hypothetical conditional 抜けば ぬけば nukeba
Classical conjugation of "抜く" (カ行四段活用, see Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Irrealis (未然形) 抜か ぬか nuka
Continuative (連用形) 抜き ぬき nuki
Terminal (終止形) 抜く ぬく nuku
Attributive (連体形) 抜く ぬく nuku
Realis (已然形) 抜け ぬけ nuke
Imperative (命令形) 抜け ぬけ nuke
Key constructions
Negative 抜かず ぬかず nukazu
Contrasting conjunction 抜けど ぬけど nukedo
Causal conjunction 抜けば ぬけば nukeba
Conditional conjunction 抜かば ぬかば nukaba
Past tense (firsthand knowledge) 抜きき ぬきき nukiki
Past tense (secondhand knowledge) 抜きけり ぬきけり nukikeri
Perfect tense (conscious action) 抜きつ ぬきつ nukitu
Perfect tense (natural event) 抜きぬ ぬきぬ nukinu
Perfect-continuative tense 抜けり
抜きたり		 ぬけり
ぬきたり		 nukeri
nukitari
Volitional 抜かむ ぬかむ nukamu

Derived terms

Derived terms

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
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