気付く

Japanese

Kanji in this term
気 付
き
Grade: 1		 つ > づ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of 気 (ki, “awareness”) +‎ 付く (tsuku, “to stick, to attach, to turn on”).[1][2][3][4] The tsuku changes to zuku as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Verb

気付く (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana きづく, rōmaji kizuku)

  1. to become aware, to notice
    それについて気 (き)付 (づ)かなかった。
    Sore ni tsuite kizukanakatta.
    I was not aware of that. → I did not notice that.
    危 (き)険 (けん)に気 (き)付 (づ)く
    kiken ni kizuku
    to become aware of a danger → to notice a danger
  2. to be revived, to come back to one's senses
    気絶 (きぜつ)していた人 (ひと)が気 (き)付 (づ)いた。
    Kizetsu shiteita hito ga kizuita.
    The person who had passed out regained consciousness.

Usage notes

Although the English gloss to notice is transitive, note that 気付く (kizuku) is intransitive. The verb can take an indirect object, marked with the particle に (ni), as in the examples above.

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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