買う

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
買
か
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

買う (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana かう, rōmaji kau, historical hiragana かふ)

  1. to buy
    私 (わたし)は新車 (しんしゃ)を買 (か)うつもりです。
    Watashi wa shinsha o kau tsumori desu.
    I'm going to buy a new car.
  2. to value, to appreciate, to have a high opinion of someone
  3. to provoke someone, to stir

Antonyms[edit]

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of "買う" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 買わ かわ kawa
Continuative (連用形) 買い かい kai
Terminal (終止形) 買う かう kau
Attributive (連体形) 買う かう kau
Hypothetical (仮定形) 買え かえ kae
Imperative (命令形) 買え かえ kae
Key constructions
Passive 買われる かわれる kawareru
Causative 買わせる
買わす		 かわせる
かわす		 kawaseru
kawasu
Potential 買える かえる kaeru
Volitional 買おう かおう kaō
Negative 買わない かわない kawanai
Negative continuative 買わず かわず kawazu
Formal 買います かいます kaimasu
Perfective 買った かった katta
Conjunctive 買って かって katte
Hypothetical conditional 買えば かえば kaeba

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
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