盗む

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
盗
ぬす
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
盜む (kyūjitai)
偸む
See also 盗み

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「盗む」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形) 		盗む ぬすむ
Imperative (命令形) 盗め ぬすめ
Key constructions
Passive 盗まれる ぬすまれる
Causative 盗ませる ぬすませる
Potential 盗める ぬすめる
Volitional 盗もう ぬすもー
Negative 盗まない ぬすまない
Negative perfective 盗まなかった ぬすまなかった
Formal 盗みます ぬすみます
Perfective 盗んだ ぬすんだ
Conjunctive 盗んで ぬすんで
Hypothetical conditional 盗めば ぬすめば

Verb

盗(ぬす)む • (nusumu) transitive godan (stem 盗(ぬす)み (nusumi), past 盗(ぬす)んだ (nusunda))

  1. to steal
    Synonym: けめる (kemeru)
    • 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ダーク・ナイトの巻(まき)【後(こう)編(へん)】”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と), volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 186:
      いや…彼(かれ)は盗(ぬす)んで行(い)きましたよ…この子(こ)のために…悪(しん)夢(じつ)をね…
      Iya… Kare wa nusunde ikimashita yo… Kono ko no tame ni… Shinjitsu o ne…
      No… It was this man who tried to steal it… For this kid’s sake… The nightmarish truth…

Conjugation

Conjugation of "盗む" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 盗ま ぬすま nusuma
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 盗み ぬすみ nusumi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 盗む ぬすむ nusumu
Rentaikei ("attributive") 盗む ぬすむ nusumu
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 盗め ぬすめ nusume
Meireikei ("imperative") 盗め ぬすめ nusume
Key constructions
Passive 盗まれる ぬすまれる nusumareru
Causative 盗ませる
盗ます 		ぬすませる
ぬすます 		nusumaseru
nusumasu
Potential 盗める ぬすめる nusumeru
Volitional 盗もう ぬすもう nusumō
Negative 盗まない ぬすまない nusumanai
Negative continuative 盗まず ぬすまず nusumazu
Formal 盗みます ぬすみます nusumimasu
Perfective 盗んだ ぬすんだ nusunda
Conjunctive 盗んで ぬすんで nusunde
Hypothetical conditional 盗めば ぬすめば nusumeba

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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