裏返す

Japanese

Kanji in this term
裏 返
うら
Grade: 6
かえ > がえ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 裏 (ura, “back side, inside, far side”) +‎ 返す (kaesu, “to flip over, to turn over”).[1][2] The kaesu changes to gaesu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) うらが​えす [ùrágáꜜèsù] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ɡa̠e̞sɨᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "裏返す"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
裏返す うらが​えす [ùrágáꜜèsù]
Imperative (命令形) 裏返せ うらが​えせ [ùrágáꜜèsè]
Key constructions
Passive 裏返される うらがえされ​る [ùrágáésáréꜜrù]
Causative 裏返させる うらがえさせ​る [ùrágáésáséꜜrù]
Potential 裏返せる うらがえせ​る [ùrágáéséꜜrù]
Volitional 裏返そう うらがえそ​ー [ùrágáésóꜜò]
Negative 裏返さない うらがえさ​ない [ùrágáésáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 裏返さなかった うらがえさ​なかった [ùrágáésáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 裏返します うらがえしま​す [ùrágáéshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 裏返った うらが​えった [ùrágáꜜèttà]
Conjunctive 裏返って うらが​えって [ùrágáꜜèttè]
Hypothetical conditional 裏返せば うらが​えせば [ùrágáꜜèsèbà]

Verb

裏(うら)返(がえ)す • (uragaesu) ←うらがへす (uragafesu)?transitive godan (stem 裏(うら)返(がえ)し (uragaeshi), past 裏(うら)返(がえ)した (uragaeshita))

  1. to reverse something, to turn something over, to flip something over
  2. to turn something inside out
  3. to view or consider something from a completely different perspective

Conjugation

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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