賄う

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: S

Etymology

From Old Japanese; attested in the Kojiki (712) with the spelling 麻迦那波而.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「賄う
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
賄う かな
Imperative (命令形) 賄え かな
Key constructions
Passive 賄われる かなわれ
Causative 賄わせる かなわせ
Potential 賄える かなえ
Volitional 賄おう かなお
Negative 賄わない かなわない
Negative perfective 賄わなかった かなわなかった
Formal 賄います かないま
Perfective 賄った かなった
Conjunctive 賄って かなって
Hypothetical conditional 賄えば かなえば

Verb

(まかな) (makanauまかなふ (makanafu)?transitive godan (stem (まかな) (makanai), past (まかな)った (makanatta))

  1. provide meals
  2. cover expenses

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 666
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN