買う

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かう [kàú] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

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

1. to buy

   私 (わたし)は新 (しん)車 (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

Conjugation

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

Antonyms

• (buy): 売 (う)る (uru): to sell

See also

• 払 (はら)う (harau): to pay
• 遣 (つか)う (tsukau): to spend
• 購 (こう)入 (にゅう) (kōnyū): purchase