裏返す

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
うら
Grade: 6
かえ > がえ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of (ura, back side, inside, far side) +‎ 返す (kaesu, to flip over, to turn over).[1][2] The kaesu changes to gaesu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「裏返す
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
裏返す らがえす
Imperative (命令形) 裏返せ らがえせ
Key constructions
Passive 裏返される らがえされ
Causative 裏返させる らがえさせ
Potential 裏返せる らがえせ
Volitional 裏返そう らがえそ
Negative 裏返さない らがえさない
Negative perfective 裏返さなかった らがえさなかった
Formal 裏返します らがえしま
Perfective 裏返った らがえった
Conjunctive 裏返って らがえって
Hypothetical conditional 裏返せば らがえせば

Verb

(うら)(がえ) (uragaesuうらがへす (uragafesu)?transitive godan (stem (うら)(がえ) (uragaeshi), past (うら)(がえ)した (uragaeshita))

  1. to reverse something, to turn something over, to flip something over
  2. to turn something inside out
  3. to view or consider something from a completely different perspective

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN