転換

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
転 換
てん
Grade: 3 		かん
Grade: S
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
轉換 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

転(てん)換(かん) • (tenkan) ←てんくわん (tenkwan)?

  1. change
    発想(はっそう)の転換(てんかん)が必要(ひつよう)なときが来(き)ている。
    Hassō no tenkan ga hitsuyō na toki ga kite iru.
    It is time to change our way of thinking.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Verb

転(てん)換(かん)する • (tenkan suru) ←てんくわん (tenkwan)?suru (stem 転(てん)換(かん)し (tenkan shi), past 転(てん)換(かん)した (tenkan shita))

  1. convert, change, divert

Conjugation

Conjugation of "転換する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 転換し てんかんし tenkan shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 転換し てんかんし tenkan shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 転換する てんかんする tenkan suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 転換する てんかんする tenkan suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 転換すれ てんかんすれ tenkan sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 転換せよ¹
転換しろ² 		てんかんせよ¹
てんかんしろ² 		tenkan seyo¹
tenkan shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 転換される てんかんされる tenkan sareru
Causative 転換させる
転換さす 		てんかんさせる
てんかんさす 		tenkan saseru
tenkan sasu
Potential 転換できる てんかんできる tenkan dekiru
Volitional 転換しよう てんかんしよう tenkan shiyō
Negative 転換しない てんかんしない tenkan shinai
Negative continuative 転換せず てんかんせず tenkan sezu
Formal 転換します てんかんします tenkan shimasu
Perfective 転換した てんかんした tenkan shita
Conjunctive 転換して てんかんして tenkan shite
Hypothetical conditional 転換すれば てんかんすれば tenkan sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

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
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