苦しめる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
くる
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「苦しめる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
苦しめる るしめ
Imperative (命令形) 苦しめろ るしめ
Key constructions
Passive 苦しめられる るしめられ
Causative 苦しめさせる るしめさせ
Potential 苦しめられる るしめられ
Volitional 苦しめよう るしめよ
Negative 苦しめない るしめない
Negative perfective 苦しめなかった るしめなかった
Formal 苦しめます るしめま
Perfective 苦しめた るしめた
Conjunctive 苦しめて るしめて
Hypothetical conditional 苦しめれば るしめれば

Verb

(くる)しめる (kurushimerutransitive ichidan (stem (くる)しめ (kurushime), past (くる)しめた (kurushimeta))

Japanese verb pair
active (くる)しめる
mediopassive (くる)しむ
  1. cause pain, cause one to suffer
  2. annoy, torment, worry, cause distress

Conjugation