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死ぬ
死ぬ
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 死 |
|
し Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi |
Verb
死ぬ (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana しぬ, romaji shinu)
- to die
- 死にたいほど苦しい
- shinitai hodo kurushii
- so excruciating one wishes to die
- 死にたいほど苦しい
- to become lifeless, to lack vitality, to show a lack of vigor
- 目が死んだような人
- me ga shinda yō na hito
- a person with lifeless eyes (lit. a person with eyes that appear to have died)
- 目が死んだような人
Conjugation
Conjugation of "死ぬ" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 死な | しな | shina |
| Continuative (連用形) | 死に | しに | shini |
| Terminal (終止形) | 死ぬ | しぬ | shinu |
| Attributive (連体形) | 死ぬ | しぬ | shinu |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 死ね | しね | shine |
| Imperative (命令形) | 死ね | しね | shine |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 死なれる | しなれる | shinareru |
| Causative | 死なせる 死なす |
しなせる しなす |
shinaseru shinasu |
| Potential | 死ねる | しねる | shineru |
| Volitional | 死のう | しのう | shinō |
| Negative | 死なない | しなない | shinanai |
| Negative continuative | 死なず | しなず | shinazu |
| Formal | 死にます | しにます | shinimasu |
| Perfective | 死んだ | しんだ | shinda |
| Conjunctive | 死んで | しんで | shinde |
| Hypothetical conditional | 死ねば | しねば | shineba |
Synonyms
- 死する (shisuru) (honorific)
- 亡くなる (naku naru) (polite)
- 崩御する (hōgyo suru) (most honorific) king, queen, emperor, empress
- 身罷る (mimakaru) (classic), (more honorific)
- 去ぬ (inu) (classic)
- くたばる (kutabaru) (vulgar)
- タヒる (tahiru) (slang), (net jargon)
Trivia
The only modern Japanese verb which ends in ぬ (an older example is 去ぬ (いぬ, inu, “to go, to leave”), which is now archaic). Accordingly, it is used in textbooks to illustrate conjugation of such verbs, despite its morbid subject.