裏返す
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 裏 | 返 |
| うら Grade: 6 |
かえ > がえ Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi | |
Etymology
Compound of 裏 (ura, “back side, inside, far side”) + 返す (kaesu, “to flip over, to turn over”).[1][2] The kaesu changes to gaesu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
Verb
裏返す (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana うらがえす, rōmaji uragaesu, historical hiragana うらがへす)
- to reverse something, to turn something over, to flip something over
- to turn something inside out
- to view or consider something from a completely different perspective
Conjugation
Conjugation of "裏返す" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 裏返さ | うらがえさ | uragaesa |
| Continuative (連用形) | 裏返し | うらがえし | uragaeshi |
| Terminal (終止形) | 裏返す | うらがえす | uragaesu |
| Attributive (連体形) | 裏返す | うらがえす | uragaesu |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 裏返せ | うらがえせ | uragaese |
| Imperative (命令形) | 裏返せ | うらがえせ | uragaese |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 裏返される | うらがえされる | uragaesareru |
| Causative | 裏返させる 裏返さす |
うらがえさせる うらがえさす |
uragaesaseru uragaesasu |
| Potential | 裏返せる | うらがえせる | uragaeseru |
| Volitional | 裏返そう | うらがえそう | uragaesō |
| Negative | 裏返さない | うらがえさない | uragaesanai |
| Negative continuative | 裏返さず | うらがえさず | uragaesazu |
| Formal | 裏返します | うらがえします | uragaeshimasu |
| Perfective | 裏返した | うらがえした | uragaeshita |
| Conjunctive | 裏返して | うらがえして | uragaeshite |
| Hypothetical conditional | 裏返せば | うらがえせば | uragaeseba |
References
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