いそいそ

Japanese

Etymology

Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).[1][2]

First attested in a text from 1212.[3]

Pronunciation

Adverb

いそいそ or イソイソ • (isoiso) 

  1. [from 1212] cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity

Usage notes

May optionally take the adverbial particle と (to).[2][3][6][4][7]

Verb

いそいそする or イソイソする • (isoiso suru) suru (stem いそいそし (isoiso suru shi), past いそいそした (isoiso suru shita))

  1. to be cheerful, eager, and acting with alacrity

Usage notes

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
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
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
  3. “いそいそ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  6. “いそいそ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  7. Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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