どきどき

See also: ときどき

Japanese
Alternative spellings
悸々 (rare)
動悸動悸 (rare)
動悸々々 (rare)
恟々 (rare)

Etymology

Reduplication of onomatopoeic root どき (doki), unattested in isolation. Reduplicated form どきどき (dokidoki) first attested in 1700.[1]

Similar, but apparently unrelated, to Sino-Japanese term 動悸 (dōki, “heartbeat; palpitation”). That term is not attested until 1721.[2]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ど​きどき [dóꜜkìdòkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA(key): [do̞kʲido̞kʲi]
  • Audio(file)

Adverb

どきどき or ドキドキ • (dokidoki) 

  1. (onomatopoeia) with a racing heart

Verb

どきどきする or ドキドキする • (dokidoki suru) suru (stem どきどきし (dokidoki shi), past どきどきした (dokidoki shita))

  1. (of a heart) to pound
    • 2000 July 18, Inokuma, Shinobu, “PART(パート)10(じゅう)　ダイエット・ラヴ（後(こう)編(へん)） [Part 10: Diet Love (Last Chapter)]”, in SALAD(サラダ) DAYS(デイズ) [SALAD DAYS], volume 10 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 182:
      ドキドキしていた。あの時(とき)みたいに…いや、あの時(とき)よりもずっと……ドキドキしていた。
      Dokidoki shite ita. Ano toki mitai ni… Iya, ano toki yori mo zutto…… dokidoki shite ita.
      My heart was pounding. Just like that time... No, it was pounding... much harder.
    • 1955, 広津柳浪, 昇降場 (in Japanese):
      今(いま)思(おも)い出(だ)しても胸(むね)が動(ど)悸(き)動(ど)悸(き)しますの。況(ま)して若(わか)子(こ)さんの喜(よろこ)び様(よう)ッてありませんでした。
      Ima omoidashite mo mune ga dokidoki shimasu no. Mashite Wakako-san no yorokobiyō tte arimasen deshita.
      Even as I think back on it now, my heart is racing; not to mention how absolutely ecstatic Wakako was.

Conjugation
Conjugation of "どきどきする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") どきどきし dokidoki shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") どきどきし dokidoki shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") どきどきする dokidoki suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") どきどきする dokidoki suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") どきどきすれ dokidoki sure
Meireikei ("imperative") どきどきせよ¹
どきどきしろ²		 dokidoki seyo¹
dokidoki shiro²
Key constructions
Passive どきどきされる dokidoki sareru
Causative どきどきさせる
どきどきさす		 dokidoki saseru
dokidoki sasu
Potential どきどきできる dokidoki dekiru
Volitional どきどきしよう dokidoki shiyō
Negative どきどきしない dokidoki shinai
Negative continuative どきどきせず dokidoki sezu
Formal どきどきします dokidoki shimasu
Perfective どきどきした dokidoki shita
Conjunctive どきどきして dokidoki shite
Hypothetical conditional どきどきすれば dokidoki sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

See also

References
  1. “どきどき”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  2. “動悸・動気”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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