動く

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
うご
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *onkəku, as **unkəku is not allowed due to Arisaka's second law. Derived as a compound of うご (ugo, a 擬態語 (gitaigo, mimetic word) imitative of something crawling or creeping; compare the sound shapes of roots wrig- or wig- in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English wriggle, wiggle) +‎ (ku, verb-forming suffix).[1] Compare also the related adverb うごうご (ugougo, wrigglingly, squirmlingly, creepingly: moving in continuous small increments).

Pronunciation

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  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "動く"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
動く [ùgóꜜkù]
Imperative (命令形) 動け [ùgóꜜkè]
Key constructions
Passive 動かれる ごかれ [ùgókáréꜜrù]
Causative 動かせる ごかせ [ùgókáséꜜrù]
Potential 動ける ごけ [ùgókéꜜrù]
Volitional 動こう ごこ [ùgókóꜜò]
Negative 動かない ごかない [ùgókáꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 動かなかった ごかなかった [ùgókáꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 動きます ごきま [ùgókímáꜜsù]
Perfective 動いた いた [ùgóꜜìtà]
Conjunctive 動いて いて [ùgóꜜìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 動けば けば [ùgóꜜkèbà]

Verb

(うご) (ugokuintransitive godan (stem (うご) (ugoki), past (うご)いた (ugoita))

Japanese verb pair
active 動かす
mediopassive 動く
  1. to move
    1. to stir, shake, shift, swing
      • (うご)な!国際警察(こくさいけいさつ)だ。
        Ugoku na! Kokusai keisatsu da.
        Interpol! Don't move!
      • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 10, poem 2176:
        , text here:
        秋田苅(あきたかる)苫手(とまで)(うごく)奈利(なり)白露志(しらつゆし)置穂田無跡(おくほだなしと)告尓来良思(つげにきぬらし)
        aki ta karu, tomade ugoku nari, shiratsuyu shi, oku hoda nashi to, tsuge ni kinu rashi
        The autumn-harvest rush-mat shelter moves [in the wind], as if [the wind] has come to tell us that there are no more fields full of ripe and dew-laden grain...
    2. (as of a machine or device) to operate, run, go, work
    3. (as of a person or group) to work, go into action
    4. (emotionally) to be moved, touched, influenced
    5. to change, vary, fluctuate, waver
Conjugation
Related terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
いご
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Rare dialectal variation on ugoku above.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

(いご) (igokuintransitive godan (stem (いご) (igoki), past (いご)いた (igoita))

  1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) to move
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
おご
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Rare dialectal variation on ugoku above.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

(おご) (ogokuintransitive godan (stem (おご) (ogoki), past (おご)いた (ogoita))

  1. (obsolete) to move
Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN