いそいそ
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Japanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with
First attested in a text from 1212.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Tokyo) いそいそ [íꜜsòìsò] (Atamadaka – [1])[4][5]
- (Tokyo) いそいそ [ìsóíꜜsò] (Nakadaka – [3])[5]
- IPA(key): [iso̞iso̞]
Adverb
[edit]- [from 1212] cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity
Usage notes
[edit]May optionally take the adverbial particle と (to).[2][3][6][4][7]
Verb
[edit]いそいそする or イソイソする • (isoiso suru) suru (stem いそいそし (isoisosuru shi), past いそいそした (isoisosuru shita))
Usage notes
[edit]Not all sources treat this as a verb,[2][3][7] likely because all such adverbs can be used with the light verb する (suru).
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of "いそいそする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Mizenkei ("imperfective") | いそいそし | isoiso shi | ||
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | いそいそし | isoiso shi | ||
Shūshikei ("terminal") | いそいそする | isoiso suru | ||
Rentaikei ("attributive") | いそいそする | isoiso suru | ||
Kateikei ("hypothetical") | いそいそすれ | isoiso sure | ||
Meireikei ("imperative") | いそいそせよ¹ いそいそしろ² |
isoiso seyo¹ isoiso shiro² | ||
Key constructions | ||||
Passive | いそいそされる | isoiso sareru | ||
Causative | いそいそさせる いそいそさす |
isoiso saseru isoiso sasu | ||
Potential | いそいそできる | isoiso dekiru | ||
Volitional | いそいそしよう | isoiso shiyō | ||
Negative | いそいそしない | isoiso shinai | ||
Negative continuative | いそいそせず | isoiso sezu | ||
Formal | いそいそします | isoiso shimasu | ||
Perfective | いそいそした | isoiso shita | ||
Conjunctive | いそいそして | isoiso shite | ||
Hypothetical conditional | いそいそすれば | isoiso sureba | ||
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative |
References
[edit]- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988)
国語 大 辞典 (新装 版 ) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kitahara, Yasuo, editor (2002),
明鏡 国語 辞典 [Meikyō Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “いそいそ”, in
日本 国語 大 辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000 - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006),
大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN - ↑ 5.0 5.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK
日本語 発音 アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN - ^ “いそいそ”, in デジタル
大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months - ↑ 7.0 7.1 Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998),
広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN