吸う

Japanese

Kanji in this term

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 (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 [sùú]
Imperative (命令形) 吸え [sùé]
Key constructions
Passive 吸われる われる [sùwárérú]
Causative 吸わせる わせる [sùwásérú]
Potential 吸える える [sùérú]
Volitional 吸おう [sùóꜜò]
Negative 吸わない わない [sùwánáí]
Negative perfective 吸わなかった わなかった [sùwánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 吸います いま [sùímáꜜsù]
Perfective 吸った った [sùttá]
Conjunctive 吸って って [sùtté]
Hypothetical conditional 吸えば [sùéꜜbà]

Verb

() • (suu) すふ (sufu)?transitive godan (stem () (sui), past ()った (sutta))

  1. to inhale
  2. to smoke (tobacco or other drugs)
    タバコを()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. ”, 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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