沿う

Japanese

Kanji in this term
沿
そ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese. Used in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "沿う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
沿う そう
そ​う
[sòú]
[sóꜜù]
Imperative (命令形) 沿え そえ
そ​え
[sòé]
[sóꜜè]
Key constructions
Passive 沿われる そわれる
そわれ​る
[sòwárérú]
[sòwáréꜜrù]
Causative 沿わせる そわせる
そわせ​る
[sòwásérú]
[sòwáséꜜrù]
Potential 沿える そえる
そえ​る
[sòérú]
[sòéꜜrù]
Volitional 沿おう そお​ー [sòóꜜò]
Negative 沿わない そわない
そわ​ない
[sòwánáí]
[sòwáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 沿わなかった そわな​かった
そわ​なかった
[sòwánáꜜkàttà]
[sòwáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 沿います そいま​す [sòímáꜜsù]
Perfective 沿った そった
そ​った
[sòttá]
[sóꜜttà]
Conjunctive 沿って そって
そ​って
[sòtté]
[sóꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 沿えば そえ​ば
そ​えば
[sòéꜜbà]
[sóꜜèbà]

Verb

沿(そ)う • (sou) intransitive godan (stem 沿(そ)い (soi), past 沿(そ)った (sotta))

  1. to run along (a river, railway, road, etc.), to line (the shore etc.)
  2. to follow (rules, guidelines, etc.)

Usage notes

Often used in a kind of adverbial phrase construction, ...に沿って... (... ni sotte ...), with a general meaning of along, in keeping with, along the lines of, in parallel with.

  • 自(じ)分(ぶん)の期(き)待(たい)に沿(そ)って生(せい)活(かつ)する
    jibun no kitai ni sotte seikatsu suru
    to live in keeping with one's own expectations

Conjugation

References

  1. c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3485:
    , text here
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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