飛ぶ

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Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
跳ぶ
翔ぶ

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *tənpu. Cognate with Okinawan 飛ぶん (tubun).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「飛ぶ
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
飛ぶ
Imperative (命令形) 飛べ
Key constructions
Passive 飛ばれる ばれる
Causative 飛ばせる ばせる
Potential 飛べる べる
Volitional 飛ぼう
Negative 飛ばない ばない
Negative perfective 飛ばなかった ばなかった
Formal 飛びます びま
Perfective 飛んだ んだ
Conjunctive 飛んで んで
Hypothetical conditional 飛べば

Verb

() (tobuintransitive godan (stem () (tobi), past ()んだ (tonda))

  1. to fly
  2. 跳ぶ: to jump
  3. to go quickly
  4. to splash, splatter

Usage notes

This spelling of tobu usually denotes flying rather than jumping, as opposed to 跳ぶ which is reserved for the latter.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 飛・跳”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.