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働く
働く
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 働 |
|
はたら Grade: 4 |
| kun'yomi |
Verb
働く (godan conjugation, hiragana はたらく, romaji hataraku)
- to work at a job, to labour (US labor)
- to work properly, to operate, to function; to carry out one's function, to be effective, to come into play
- スイッチが働いてない。
- Suitchi ga hataraitenai.
- The switch isn't working.
- スイッチが働いてない。
- to perpetrate or commit a crime
- (grammar) to conjugate; to inflect; to decline
Conjugation
Conjugation of "働く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 働か | はたらか | hataraka |
| Continuative (連用形) | 働き | はたらき | hataraki |
| Terminal (終止形) | 働く | はたらく | hataraku |
| Attributive (連体形) | 働く | はたらく | hataraku |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 働け | はたらけ | hatarake |
| Imperative (命令形) | 働け | はたらけ | hatarake |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 働かれる | はたらかれる | hatarakareru |
| Causative | 働かせる 働かす |
はたらかせる はたらかす |
hatarakaseru hatarakasu |
| Potential | 働ける | はたらける | hatarakeru |
| Volitional | 働こう | はたらこう | hatarakō |
| Negative | 働かない | はたらかない | hatarakanai |
| Negative continuative | 働かず | はたらかず | hatarakazu |
| Formal | 働きます | はたらきます | hatarakimasu |
| Perfective | 働いた | はたらいた | hataraita |
| Conjunctive | 働いて | はたらいて | hataraite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 働けば | はたらけば | hatarakeba |
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.