問う

Japanese

Kanji in this term
問
と
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

⟨to1pu⟩ → */tʷopu/ → /toɸu/ → /tou/

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) と​う [tóꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [to̞ɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "問う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
問う と​う [tóꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 問え と​え [tóꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 問われる とわれ​る [tòwáréꜜrù]
Causative 問わせる とわせ​る [tòwáséꜜrù]
Potential 問える とえ​る [tòéꜜrù]
Volitional 問おう とお​ー [tòóꜜò]
Negative 問わない とわ​ない [tòwáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 問わなかった とわ​なかった [tòwáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 問います といま​す [tòímáꜜsù]
Perfective 問うた と​ーた [tóꜜòtà]
Conjunctive 問うて と​ーて [tóꜜòtè]
Hypothetical conditional 問えば と​えば [tóꜜèbà]

Verb

問(と)う • (tou) ←とふ (tofu)?transitive godan (stem 問(と)い (toi), past 問(と)うた (tōta))

  1. to ask; to inquire
  2. to accuse (of a crime)
  3. to care (about), have regard (for)

Conjugation

The past and conjunctive forms are conjugated as 問(と)うた (tōta) and 問(と)うて (toute) respectively, rather than 問(と)った (totta) and 問(と)って (totte)

Derived terms

Idioms

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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