たなびく

Japanese
Alternative spelling
棚引く

Etymology

From たな (tana-) + 引(ひ)く (hiku).[1] The hiku changes to biku as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) たなび​く [tànábíꜜkù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ta̠na̠bʲikɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

たなびく • (tanabiku) ←たなびく (tanabiku)?intransitive godan (stem たなびき (tanabiki), past たなびいた (tanabiita))

  1. (of a cloud, smoke, etc.) to trail

Conjugation
Conjugation of "たなびく" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") たなびか tanabika
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") たなびき tanabiki
Shūshikei ("terminal") たなびく tanabiku
Rentaikei ("attributive") たなびく tanabiku
Kateikei ("hypothetical") たなびけ tanabike
Meireikei ("imperative") たなびけ tanabike
Key constructions
Passive たなびかれる tanabikareru
Causative たなびかせる
たなびかす		 tanabikaseru
tanabikasu
Potential たなびける tanabikeru
Volitional たなびこう tanabikō
Negative たなびかない tanabikanai
Negative continuative たなびかず tanabikazu
Formal たなびきます tanabikimasu
Perfective たなびいた tanabiita
Conjunctive たなびいて tanabiite
Hypothetical conditional たなびけば tanabikeba

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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