探偵
Appearance
See also: 偵探
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 探 | 偵 |
| たん Grade: 6 |
てい Grade: S |
| on'yomi | |
Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- a detective (person employed to find information)
- Synonym: ディテクティブ (ditekutibu)
- 2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ブラック・スターの巻【前編】 [Black Star [First Chapter]]”, in まじっく快斗 [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 84:
- 何なんだお前は⁉
- Nan na n da o-mae wa⁉
- Wh-Who the hell are you⁉
- Kudō Shin'ichi… Tantei desu yo…
- Kudō Shin’ichi… I’m a detective…
- 何なんだお前は⁉
- a spy
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Korean: 탐정 (tamjeong)
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]探偵する • (tantei suru) transitive suru (stem 探偵し (tantei shi), past 探偵した (tantei shita))
Conjugation
[edit]| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 探偵し | たんていし | tantei shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 探偵し | たんていし | tantei shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 探偵する | たんていする | tantei suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 探偵する | たんていする | tantei suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 探偵すれ | たんていすれ | tantei sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 探偵せよ¹ 探偵しろ² |
たんていせよ¹ たんていしろ² |
tantei seyo¹ tantei shiro² |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 探偵される | たんていされる | tantei sareru |
| Causative | 探偵させる 探偵さす |
たんていさせる たんていさす |
tantei saseru tantei sasu |
| Potential | 探偵できる | たんていできる | tantei dekiru |
| Volitional | 探偵しよう | たんていしよう | tantei shiyō |
| Negative | 探偵しない | たんていしない | tantei shinai |
| Negative continuative | 探偵せず | たんていせず | tantei sezu |
| Formal | 探偵します | たんていします | tantei shimasu |
| Perfective | 探偵した | たんていした | tantei shita |
| Conjunctive | 探偵して | たんていして | tantei shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 探偵すれば | たんていすれば | tantei sureba |
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- “探偵”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
- Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN
Korean
[edit]| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 探 | 偵 |
Noun
[edit]探偵 • (tamjeong or McCune-Reischauer: t'amjŏng or Yale: thamceng) (hangeul 탐정)
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