暴く
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 暴 |
| あば Grade: 5 |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology
Recorded since at least the early 1100s CE.[1] Likely cognate with 荒ら (abara, “with large gaps, wide open; wild, ruined”, adjective), 暴れる (abareru, “to be violent, to be wild”, verb).
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
- 発く
Verb
暴く (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana あばく, rōmaji abaku)
- disclose (a secret), expose (a crime), lay bare, divulge
- Tanaka Corpus
- 彼らの秘密が全部暴かれた。
- Karera no himitsu ga zenbu abakareta.
- All their secrets have been revealed.
- 彼らの秘密が全部暴かれた。
- Tanaka Corpus
Conjugation
Conjugation of "暴く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 暴か | あばか | abaka |
| Continuative (連用形) | 暴き | あばき | abaki |
| Terminal (終止形) | 暴く | あばく | abaku |
| Attributive (連体形) | 暴く | あばく | abaku |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 暴け | あばけ | abake |
| Imperative (命令形) | 暴け | あばけ | abake |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 暴かれる | あばかれる | abakareru |
| Causative | 暴かせる 暴かす |
あばかせる あばかす |
abakaseru abakasu |
| Potential | 暴ける | あばける | abakeru |
| Volitional | 暴こう | あばこう | abakō |
| Negative | 暴かない | あばかない | abakanai |
| Negative continuative | 暴かず | あばかず | abakazu |
| Formal | 暴きます | あばきます | abakimasu |
| Perfective | 暴いた | あばいた | abaita |
| Conjunctive | 暴いて | あばいて | abaite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 暴けば | あばけば | abakeba |
Related terms
- 荒ら (abara, “with large gaps, wide open; wild, ruined”)
- 暴れる (abareru, “to be violent, to be wild”)
References
- ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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