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伺候
伺候
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 伺 | 候 |
|
し Grade: S |
こう Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi | |
Pronunciation
Noun
伺候 (hiragana しこう, romaji shikō)
- waiting on someone
Verb
伺候する (intransitive, hiragana しこうする, romaji shikō suru)
- wait on someone
Conjugation
Conjugation of "伺候する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 伺候し | しこうし | shikō shi | |
| Continuative (連用形) | 伺候し | しこうし | shikō shi | |
| Terminal (終止形) | 伺候する | しこうする | shikō suru | |
| Attributive (連体形) | 伺候する | しこうする | shikō suru | |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 伺候すれ | しこうすれ | shikō sure | |
| Imperative (命令形) | 伺候せよ¹ 伺候しろ² |
しこうせよ¹ しこうしろ² |
shikō seyo¹ shikō shiro² |
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| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | 伺候される | しこうされる | shikō sareru | |
| Causative | 伺候させる 伺候さす |
しこうさせる しこうさす |
shikō saseru shikō sasu |
|
| Potential | 伺候できる | しこうできる | shikō dekiru | |
| Volitional | 伺候しよう | しこうしよう | shikō shiyō | |
| Negative | 伺候しない | しこうしない | shikō shinai | |
| Negative continuative | 伺候せず | しこうせず | shikō sezu | |
| Formal | 伺候します | しこうします | shikō shimasu | |
| Perfective | 伺候した | しこうした | shikō shita | |
| Conjunctive | 伺候して | しこうして | shikō shite | |
| Hypothetical conditional | 伺候すれば | しこうすれば | shikō sureba | |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative | ||||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: si6 hau6
- Yale: sih hauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: si6 hau6
- IPA (key): /siː²² hɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sīr-hiō
- Tâi-lô: sīr-hiō
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹⁻²² hiɤ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū-hāu
- Tâi-lô: sū-hāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: suxhau
- IPA (Taipei): /su³³⁻¹¹ haʊ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su³³⁻²¹ haʊ³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /su²²⁻²¹ haʊ²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²²⁻²¹ haʊ²²/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-hāu
- Tâi-lô: su-hāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: su'hau
- IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ haʊ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ haʊ³³/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù-hāu
- Tâi-lô: sù-hāu
- Phofsit Daibuun: suo'hau
- IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹⁻⁵³ haʊ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹⁻⁴¹ haʊ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
