数える

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
かぞ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
數える (kyūjitai)
算える

Etymology

/kazuapu//kazwoperu//kazwoɸeru//kazwoweru//kazoeru/

Inherited from Old Japanese. Equivalent to (number) +‎ あう.[1]

Pronunciation

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

Verb

(かぞ)える (kazoeruかぞへる (kazoferu)?transitive ichidan (stem (かぞ) (kazoe), past (かぞ)えた (kazoeta))

  1. to count

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010) A History of the Japanese Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48