照る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
照
て
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *teru.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "照る"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
照る て​る [téꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 照れ て​れ [téꜜrè]
Key constructions
Passive 照られる てられ​る [tèráréꜜrù]
Causative 照らせる てらせ​る [tèráséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 照ろう てろ​ー [tèróꜜò]
Negative 照らない てら​ない [tèráꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 照らなかった てら​なかった [tèráꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 照ります てりま​す [tèrímáꜜsù]
Perfective 照った て​った [téꜜttà]
Conjunctive 照って て​って [téꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 照れば て​れば [téꜜrèbà]

Verb

照(て)る • (teru) intransitive godan (stem 照(て)り (teri), past 照(て)った (tetta))

Japanese verb pair
active 照らす
mediopassive 照る
  1. to shine
    照(て)っても降(ふ)っても……
    tette mo futte mo……
    rain or shine…
    (literally, “shine or rain…”)
  2. to be fine

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. “照”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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