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継ぐ
継ぐ
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 継 |
| Grade: S |
Alternative forms
Verb
継ぐ (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana つぐ, romaji tsugu)
- succeed someone, inherit an operation, continue an action
- mend clothing
- add, such as add charcoal to a fire
- connect two things, graft, splice film, set a bone
Conjugation
Conjugation of "継ぐ" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 継が | つが | tsuga |
| Continuative (連用形) | 継ぎ | つぎ | tsugi |
| Terminal (終止形) | 継ぐ | つぐ | tsugu |
| Attributive (連体形) | 継ぐ | つぐ | tsugu |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 継げ | つげ | tsuge |
| Imperative (命令形) | 継げ | つげ | tsuge |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 継がれる | つがれる | tsugareru |
| Causative | 継がせる 継がす |
つがせる つがす |
tsugaseru tsugasu |
| Potential | 継げる | つげる | tsugeru |
| Volitional | 継ごう | つごう | tsugō |
| Negative | 継がない | つがない | tsuganai |
| Negative continuative | 継がず | つがず | tsugazu |
| Formal | 継ぎます | つぎます | tsugimasu |
| Perfective | 継いだ | ついだ | tsuida |
| Conjunctive | 継いで | ついで | tsuide |
| Hypothetical conditional | 継げば | つげば | tsugeba |