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活用

活用

Chinese

 
to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
to use
simp. and trad.
(活用)

Verb

活用

  1. to flexibly put to use; to apply flexibly; to have multiple uses
  2. to inflect; to conjugate

Japanese

Kanji in this term
かつ
Grade: 2
よう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

活用 (hiragana かつよう, romaji katsuyō)

  1. application (the use of a thing)
  2. inflection (of a verb, conjugation; of an adjective or noun, declension)

Verb

活用する (hiragana かつようする, romaji katsuyō suru)

  1. to utilize
  2. (grammar) to inflect, to conjugate

Conjugation

See also

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.