眠い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
眠
ねむ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "眠い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 眠く ねむく [nèmúkú]
Terminal (終止形) 眠い ねむい
ねむ​い
[nèmúí]
[nèmúꜜì]
Attributive (連体形) 眠い ねむい [nèmúí]
Key constructions
Informal negative 眠くない ねむくな​い [nèmúkúnáꜜì]
Informal past 眠かった ねむ​かった [nèmúꜜkàttà]
Informal negative past 眠くなかった ねむくな​かった [nèmúkúnáꜜkàttà]
Formal 眠いです ねむ​いです [nèmúꜜìdèsù]
Conjunctive 眠くて ねむ​くて [nèmúꜜkùtè]
Conditional 眠ければ ねむ​ければ [nèmúꜜkèrèbà]

Adjective

眠(ねむ)い • (nemui) -i (adverbial 眠(ねむ)く (nemuku))

  1. sleepy
    眠(ねむ)くなる ― nemuku naru ― to get/become sleepy
    眠(ねむ)そうな目(め)で見(み)る ― nemusō na me de miru ― to look with sleepy eyes
    • 1926, Yumeji Takehisa, Yoru [Night]‎:
      「だってあたし眠(ねむ)くないの」
      “Datte atashi nemukunai no”
      "But I'm not sleepy."
  2. drowsy
    眠(ねむ)くてたまらない。
    Nemukute tamaranai.
    I'm feeling so drowsy.

Inflection

Synonyms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →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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