亡くなる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology

The adverbial -く (-ku) form of adjective 無い (nai, not, missing, not present) + verb なる (naru, to become): literally, "to become not, to become nonexistent".[1][2]

The spelling of the na- root of nai and naku naru is reserved for the meaning of "dead, gone".

Cognate with ()くなる (naku naru).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "亡くなる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
亡くなる くなる [nàkúnárú]
Imperative (命令形) 亡くなれ くなれ [nàkúnáré]
Key constructions
Passive 亡くなられる くなられる [nàkúnárárérú]
Causative 亡くならせる くならせる [nàkúnárásérú]
Potential - - -
Volitional 亡くなろう くなろ [nàkúnáróꜜò]
Negative 亡くならない くならない [nàkúnáránáí]
Negative perfective 亡くならなかった くならなかった [nàkúnáránáꜜkàttà]
Formal 亡くなります くなりま [nàkúnárímáꜜsù]
Perfective 亡くなった くなった [nàkúnáttá]
Conjunctive 亡くなって くなって [nàkúnátté]
Hypothetical conditional 亡くなれば くなれ [nàkúnáréꜜbà]

Verb

()くなる (naku naru) intransitive godan (stem ()くなり (naku nari), past ()くなった (naku natta))

  1. (polite) to die

Conjugation

Synonyms

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
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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