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

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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