飛ぶ

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Japanese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
跳ぶ
翔ぶ

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *tənpu. Cognate with Okinawan 飛ぶん (tubun).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "飛ぶ"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
飛ぶ [tòbú]
Imperative (命令形) 飛べ [tòbé]
Key constructions
Passive 飛ばれる ばれる [tòbárérú]
Causative 飛ばせる ばせる [tòbásérú]
Potential 飛べる べる [tòbérú]
Volitional 飛ぼう [tòbóꜜò]
Negative 飛ばない ばない [tòbánáí]
Negative perfective 飛ばなかった ばなかった [tòbánáꜜkàttà]
Formal 飛びます びま [tòbímáꜜsù]
Perfective 飛んだ んだ [tòńdá]
Conjunctive 飛んで んで [tòńdé]
Hypothetical conditional 飛べば [tòbéꜜbà]

Verb[edit]

() (tobuintransitive godan (stem () (tobi), past ()んだ (tonda))

  1. to fly
  2. 跳ぶ: to jump
  3. to go quickly
  4. to splash, splatter

Usage notes[edit]

This spelling of tobu usually denotes flying rather than jumping, as opposed to 跳ぶ which is reserved for the latter.

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 飛・跳”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ 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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.