手が出る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
手 出
て
Grade: 1
で
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [te̞ ɡa̠ de̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

手(て)が出(で)る • (te ga deru) ichidan (stem 手(て)が出(で) (te ga de), past 手(て)が出(で)た (te ga deta))

Japanese verb pair
active 手を出す
mediopassive 手が出る
  1. (chiefly in the negative) to be able to take action; to be capable of achieving a goal or solving a problem
    パソコンはなかなか手(て)が出(で)ない。
    Pasokon wa nakanaka te ga denai.
    They can hardly afford to buy personal computers.
  2. to use violence
    • 2015, 片田珠美, [図解]他人を攻撃せずにはいられない人, →ISBN, page 10:
      手(て)が出(で)る人(ひと)というのは、見方(みかた)によっては「気(き)の毒(どく)な人(ひと)」だともいえます。
      Te ga deru hito to iu no wa, mikata ni yotte wa “kinodoku na hito” da to mo iemasu.
      A violent person, in a sense is also a miserable person.

Usage notes

  • This phrase has a syntactical subject 手. Thus the semantic subject is usually indefinite or implied. Otherwise, the semantic subject can be introduced as an absolute topic with は/も, or as the possessor of the syntactical subject with の. Also, the subject marker が may be omitted, giving 手出る, or when the phrase is used attributively, may be replaced by の, giving 手の出る.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • 手(て)も足(あし)も出(で)ない (te mo ashi mo denai)
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