飛ぶ

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
飛
と
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
跳ぶ
翔ぶ

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *tənpu. Cognate with Okinawan 飛ぶん (tubun).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "飛ぶ"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
飛ぶ とぶ [tòbú]
Imperative (命令形) 飛べ とべ [tòbé]
Key constructions
Passive 飛ばれる とばれる [tòbárérú]
Causative 飛ばせる とばせる [tòbásérú]
Potential 飛べる とべる [tòbérú]
Volitional 飛ぼう とぼ​ー [tòbóꜜò]
Negative 飛ばない とばない [tòbánáí]
Negative perfective 飛ばなかった とばな​かった [tòbánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 飛びます とびま​す [tòbímáꜜsù]
Perfective 飛んだ とんだ [tòńdá]
Conjunctive 飛んで とんで [tòńdé]
Hypothetical conditional 飛べば とべ​ば [tòbéꜜbà]

Verb

飛(と)ぶ • (tobu) intransitive godan (stem 飛(と)び (tobi), past 飛(と)んだ (tonda))

  1. to fly
  2. 跳ぶ: to jump
  3. to go quickly
  4. to splash, splatter

Usage notes

This spelling of tobu usually denotes flying rather than jumping, as opposed to 跳ぶ which is reserved for the latter.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. “飛・跳”, 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
  3. 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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