投げる

Japanese

投(な)げる • (nageru) transitive ichidan (stem 投(な)げ (nage), past 投(な)げた (nageta))

to throw
役者(やくしゃ)にトマトを投(な)げないでください。
Yakusha ni tomato o nagenaide kudasai.
Please do not throw tomatoes at the performer.
(Tsugaru, Hokkaidō) to throw away
Synonym: (standard Japanese) すてる (suteru)

(to throw away): Known as a word that dialect speakers unwittingly use as if it were standard language.

Conjugation of "投げる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	投げ	なげ	nage
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	投げ	なげ	nage
Shūshikei ("terminal")	投げる	なげる	nageru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	投げる	なげる	nageru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	投げれ	なげれ	nagere
Meireikei ("imperative")	投げよ¹ 投げろ²	なげよ¹ なげろ²	nageyo¹ nagero²
Key constructions
Passive	投げられる	なげられる	nagerareru
Causative	投げさせる投げさす	なげさせるなげさす	nagesaseru nagesasu
Potential	投げられる投げれる³	なげられるなげれる³	nagerareru nagereru³
Volitional	投げよう	なげよう	nageyō
Negative	投げない投げぬ投げん	なげないなげぬなげん	nagenai nagenu nagen
Negative continuative	投げず	なげず	nagezu
Formal	投げます	なげます	nagemasu
Perfective	投げた	なげた	nageta
Conjunctive	投げて	なげて	nagete
Hypothetical conditional	投げれば	なげれば	nagereba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential

^ 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

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