承る
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 承 |
| うけたまわ Grade: 5 |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology
Compound of 受ける (ukeru, “to receive”) + 賜る (tamawaru, “to be granted”), with alternative (irregular) spelling as 受け賜る.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Verb
承る (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana うけたまわる, rōmaji uketamawaru)
- (humble) to receive
- (humble) to read, to look over (from the sense of receiving a letter or document)
- (humble) to hear, to listen to, to be told
- 承りましょう
- uketamawarimashō
- I'll listen to you respectfully
- 承りましょう
- (humble) to consent to, to agree to, to accept (such as a command or instruction)
- (rare, honorific) to speak, to say (said of someone else, never of oneself)
Usage notes
- This is the verb with longest kanji reading (5 morae) うけたまわ.る uketamawa.ru. The only other kanji with a 5-morae reading is the noun 志 (kokorozashi), and no kanji have readings of 6 or more morae.
- This unusually long reading is due to 承る being a single character for a compound verb, one component of which has a long reading (alternative spelling as 受け賜る (uketamawaru), hence (1+1)+3=5; compare common 受け付ける (uketsukeru).
Conjugation
Conjugation of "承る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 承ら | うけたまわら | uketamawara |
| Continuative (連用形) | 承り | うけたまわり | uketamawari |
| Terminal (終止形) | 承る | うけたまわる | uketamawaru |
| Attributive (連体形) | 承る | うけたまわる | uketamawaru |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 承れ | うけたまわれ | uketamaware |
| Imperative (命令形) | 承れ | うけたまわれ | uketamaware |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 承られる | うけたまわられる | uketamawarareru |
| Causative | 承らせる 承らす |
うけたまわらせる うけたまわらす |
uketamawaraseru uketamawarasu |
| Potential | 承れる | うけたまわれる | uketamawareru |
| Volitional | 承ろう | うけたまわろう | uketamawarō |
| Negative | 承らない | うけたまわらない | uketamawaranai |
| Negative continuative | 承らず | うけたまわらず | uketamawarazu |
| Formal | 承ります | うけたまわります | uketamawarimasu |
| Perfective | 承った | うけたまわった | uketamawatta |
| Conjunctive | 承って | うけたまわって | uketamawatte |
| Hypothetical conditional | 承れば | うけたまわれば | uketamawareba |
Synonyms
Synonyms
- (receive, humble): 頂く (いただく, itadaku)
- (receive, not humble): 受ける (うける, ukeru), 貰う (もらう, morau)
- (read, humble): 拝読 (はいどく, haidoku)
- (read, not humble): 読む (よむ, yomu)
- (look over, humble): 拝見 (はいけん, haiken)
- (look over, not humble): 見る (みる, miru)
- (hear, humble): 伺う (うかがう, ukagau)
- (hear, not humble): 聞く (きく, kiku)
- (consent): 承諾 (しょうだく, shōdaku)
- (accept): 受諾 (じゅだく, judaku), 引き受ける (ひきうける, hikiukeru)
- (say, honorific): 仰る (おっしゃる, ossharu)
- (say, not honorific): 言う (いう, iu)
References
- ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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