吸う

Japanese

Kanji in this term
吸
す
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese,[1] from Proto-Japonic *supu. Cognate with Okinawan 吸ぷゆん (shipuyun).

Likely an onomatopoeia. Compare Middle Korean ᄲᆞᆯ〮다〮 (spóltá, “to suck”), Middle Chinese 吸 (MC xip, “to suck”), Proto-Austronesian *-sep (“to suck”), Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to suck”), etc.[2]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "吸う"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
吸う すう [sùú]
Imperative (命令形) 吸え すえ [sùé]
Key constructions
Passive 吸われる すわれる [sùwárérú]
Causative 吸わせる すわせる [sùwásérú]
Potential 吸える すえる [sùérú]
Volitional 吸おう すお​ー [sùóꜜò]
Negative 吸わない すわない [sùwánáí]
Negative perfective 吸わなかった すわな​かった [sùwánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 吸います すいま​す [sùímáꜜsù]
Perfective 吸った すった [sùttá]
Conjunctive 吸って すって [sùtté]
Hypothetical conditional 吸えば すえ​ば [sùéꜜbà]

Verb

吸(す)う • (suu) ←すふ (sufu)?transitive godan (stem 吸(す)い (sui), past 吸(す)った (sutta))

  1. to inhale
  2. to smoke (tobacco or other drugs)
    タバコを吸(す)ってもいいですか。
    Tabako o sutte mo ii desu ka.
    Is it okay to smoke?
  3. to suck
  4. to absorb

Conjugation

References

  1. “吸”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Vovin, Alexander (2010) Koreo-Japonica: A Re-Evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin, University of Hawai’i Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 179
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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