寝る

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
寢る (kyūjitai)
寐る

Etymology

From Old Japanese (nu).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 寝る
Plain 寝る [nèrú]
Conjunctive 寝て [nèté]
Perfective 寝た [nètá]
Negative 寝ない ない [nènáí]
Negative perfective 寝なかった かった [nènáꜜkàttà]
Hypothetical conditional 寝れば [nèréꜜbà]
Past conditional 寝たら [nètáꜜrà]
Imperative 寝ろ
寝よ

[nèró]
[néꜜyò]
Volitional 寝よう [nèyóꜜò]
Desiderative 寝たい たい [nètáí]
Formal 寝ます [nèmáꜜsù]
Formal negative 寝ません ませ [nèmáséꜜǹ]
Formal volitional 寝ましょう ましょ [nèmáshóꜜò]
Formal perfective 寝ました した [nèmáꜜshìtà]
Continuative
寝に

[nè]
[nè ní]
Negative continuative 寝ず
寝ずに

ずに
[nèzú]
[nèzú ní]
Passive 寝られる られる [nèrárérú]
Causative 寝させる
寝さす
させる
さす
[nèsásérú]
[nèsású]
Potential 寝られる
寝れる
られる
れる
[nèrárérú]
[nèrérú]

Verb

() • (neruintransitive ichidan (stem () (ne), past () (neta))

  1. to sleep
  2. to go to bed
  3. () 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(なか)()()のか?
      Omae Nakai to neta no ka?
      Did you sleep with Nakai?
  4. to lie down
  5. (of miso, sake, etc.) to ripen, to ferment, to cure

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN