抜く

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

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
Imperative (命令形) 抜け
Key constructions
Passive 抜かれる かれる
Causative 抜かせる かせる
Potential 抜ける ける
Volitional 抜こう
Negative 抜かない かない
Negative perfective 抜かなかった かなかった
Formal 抜きます きま
Perfective 抜いた いた
Conjunctive 抜いて いて
Hypothetical conditional 抜けば

Verb

() (nukutransitive godan (stem () (nuki), past ()いた (nuita))

Japanese verb pair
active 抜く
mediopassive 抜ける
  1. to extract (something), to take out
    ()()
    ha o nuku
    to pull a tooth
    • 自分(じぶん)()いたまま()(かさ)ねた(ほん)(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()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)()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

() (-nuku

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

Conjugation

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