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好く

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *suku.

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) [súꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • (Tokyo) [sùkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2] non-lexical pitch that some speakers employ to reconcile coinciding devoicing and accenting
  • IPA(key): [sɨkɯ̟]

Verb

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() (sukutransitive godan (stem () (suki), past ()いた (suita))

  1. to be fond of
    Synonym: 好む (konomu)
    Antonyms: 嫌う (kirau), 嫌がる (iyagaru)

Usage notes

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  • In modern Japanese, the object is marked with . Until the Muromachi period (1336-1573), the object used to be marked with .[1]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 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