寝る
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 寝 |
| ね Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 寢る (kyūjitai) 寐る |
Etymology
From Old Japanese 寝 (nu).
Pronunciation
- Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 寝る
| Plain | 寝る | ねる | [nèrú] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conjunctive | 寝て | ねて | [nèté] |
| Perfective | 寝た | ねた | [nètá] |
| Negative | 寝ない | ねない | [nènáí] |
| Negative perfective | 寝なかった | ねなかった | [nènáꜜkàttà] |
| Hypothetical conditional | 寝れば | ねれば | [nèréꜜbà] |
| Past conditional | 寝たら | ねたら | [nètáꜜrà] |
| Imperative | 寝ろ 寝よ |
ねろ ねよ |
[nèró] [néꜜyò] |
| Volitional | 寝よう | ねよー | [nèyóꜜò] |
| Desiderative | 寝たい | ねたい | [nètáí] |
| Formal | 寝ます | ねます | [nèmáꜜsù] |
| Formal negative | 寝ません | ねません | [nèmáséꜜǹ] |
| Formal volitional | 寝ましょう | ねましょー | [nèmáshóꜜò] |
| Formal perfective | 寝ました | ねました | [nèmáꜜshìtà] |
| Continuative | 寝 寝に |
ね ねに |
[nè] [nè ní] |
| Negative continuative | 寝ず 寝ずに |
ねず ねずに |
[nèzú] [nèzú ní] |
| Passive | 寝られる | ねられる | [nèrárérú] |
| Causative | 寝させる 寝さす |
ねさせる ねさす |
[nèsásérú] [nèsású] |
| Potential | 寝られる 寝れる |
ねられる ねれる |
[nèrárérú] [nèrérú] |
Verb
寝る • (neru) intransitive ichidan (stem 寝 (ne), past 寝た (neta))
- to sleep
- to go to bed
- (と〜) to sleep with, to have sexual intercourse with
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:性交する
- 2003 April 22, Kenshi Hirokane, “STEP2 さよならはダンスの後に [Step 2: Only Say Goodbye after the Dance]”, in ヤング島耕作 [Young Shima Kōsaku], volume 1 (fiction), Tōkyō: Kōdansha, →ISBN, page 42:
- おまえ中井と寝たのか?
- Omae Nakai to neta no ka?
- Did you sleep with Nakai?
- おまえ中井と寝たのか?
- to lie down
- (of miso, sake, etc.) to ripen, to ferment, to cure
Conjugation
Conjugation of "寝る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 寝 | ね | ne | |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 寝 | ね | ne | |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 寝る | ねる | neru | |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 寝る | ねる | neru | |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 寝れ | ねれ | nere | |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 寝よ¹ 寝ろ² |
ねよ¹ ねろ² |
neyo¹ nero² | |
| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | 寝られる | ねられる | nerareru | |
| Causative | 寝させる 寝さす |
ねさせる ねさす |
nesaseru nesasu | |
| Potential | 寝られる 寝れる³ |
ねられる ねれる³ |
nerareru nereru³ | |
| Volitional | 寝よう | ねよう | neyō | |
| Negative | 寝ない 寝ぬ 寝ん |
ねない ねぬ ねん |
nenai nenu nen | |
| Negative continuative | 寝ず | ねず | nezu | |
| Formal | 寝ます | ねます | nemasu | |
| Perfective | 寝た | ねた | neta | |
| Conjunctive | 寝て | ねて | nete | |
| Hypothetical conditional | 寝れば | ねれば | nereba | |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential | ||||
Synonyms
Related terms
- 寝かす (nekasu)
References
- ^ Uwano, Zendo (31 October 2002), “見島方言の用言のアクセント調査報告 [A Report on the Accentual Surveys of Verbs and Adjectives in the Mishima Dialect]”, in 環太平洋の「消滅に瀕した言語」にかんする緊急調査研究 [Endangered languages of the Pacific Rim][1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 September 2022
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- “寝る”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025