起こる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
起る

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *əkəru.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「起こる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
起こる
Imperative (命令形) 起これ
Key constructions
Passive 起こられる こられ
Causative 起こらせる こらせ
Potential - - -
Volitional 起ころう ころ
Negative 起こらない こらない
Negative perfective 起こらなかった こらなかった
Formal 起こります こりま
Perfective 起こった った
Conjunctive 起こって って
Hypothetical conditional 起これば れば

Verb

()こる (okoruintransitive godan (stem ()こり (okori), past ()こった (okotta))

Japanese verb pair
active 起こす
mediopassive 起こる
  1. happen
  2. occur

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō