すます

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Japanese[edit]

Alternative spelling
済ます

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "済ます"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
済ます [sùmáꜜsù]
Imperative (命令形) 済ませ [sùmáꜜsè]
Key constructions
Passive 済まされる まされ [sùmásáréꜜrù]
Causative 済まさせる まさせ [sùmásáséꜜrù]
Potential 済ませる ませ [sùmáséꜜrù]
Volitional 済まそう まそ [sùmásóꜜò]
Negative 済まさない まさない [sùmásáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 済まさなかった まさなかった [sùmásáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 済まします ましま [sùmáshímáꜜsù]
Perfective 済ました した [sùmáꜜshìtà]
Conjunctive 済まして して [sùmáꜜshìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 済ませば せば [sùmáꜜsèbà]

Verb[edit]

すます (sumasutransitive godan (stem すまし (sumashi), past すました (sumashita))

  1. to finish, to end, to settle
  2. to repay
  3. to make do with
Conjugation[edit]

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of すます – see the following entry.
澄ます
[verb] to clear; to make something clear
[verb] to wash clean
[verb] to keep calm
[verb] to concentrate one's effort; to focus one's attention
[verb] to pretend as if nothing happened
Alternative spelling
清ます
(This term, すます, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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