探偵

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See also: 偵探

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探 偵
たん
Grade: 6 		てい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

探(たん)偵(てい) • (tantei) 

  1. a detective (person employed to find information)
    Synonym: ディテクティブ (ditekutibu)
    • 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ブラック・スターの巻(まき)【前(ぜん)編(ぺん)】 ]”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と) , volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 84:
      何(なん)なんだお前(まえ)は⁉
      Nan na n da o-mae wa⁉
      Wh-Who the hell are you⁉
      工(く)藤(どう)新(しん)一(いち)…探(たん)偵(てい)ですよ…
      Kudō Shin'ichi… Tantei desu yo…
      Kudō Shin’ichi… I’m a detective…
  2. a spy
    Synonyms: 隠密 (onmitsu), スパイ (supai), 密偵 (mittei)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Korean: 탐정 (tamjeong)

See also

Verb

探(たん)偵(てい)する • (tantei suru) suru (stem 探(たん)偵(てい)し (tantei shi), past 探(たん)偵(てい)した (tantei shita))

  1. to covertly investigate

Conjugation

Conjugation of "探偵する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 探偵し たんていし tantei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 探偵し たんていし tantei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 探偵する たんていする tantei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 探偵する たんていする tantei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 探偵すれ たんていすれ tantei sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 探偵せよ¹
探偵しろ² 		たんていせよ¹
たんていしろ² 		tantei seyo¹
tantei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 探偵される たんていされる tantei sareru
Causative 探偵させる
探偵さす 		たんていさせる
たんていさす 		tantei saseru
tantei sasu
Potential 探偵できる たんていできる tantei dekiru
Volitional 探偵しよう たんていしよう tantei shiyō
Negative 探偵しない たんていしない tantei shinai
Negative continuative 探偵せず たんていせず tantei sezu
Formal 探偵します たんていします tantei shimasu
Perfective 探偵した たんていした tantei shita
Conjunctive 探偵して たんていして tantei shite
Hypothetical conditional 探偵すれば たんていすれば tantei sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
探偵

Noun

探偵 • (tamjeong or McCune-Reischauer: t'amjŏng or Yale: thamceng) (hangeul 탐정)

  1. hanja form? of 탐정
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