よいしょ

Japanese

Pronunciation

Interjection

よいしょ • (yoisho) 

  1. interjection used when someone is sitting down or picking up something heavy
    • 1998, Kazuko Shikita, Oigokoro no honne [Truth of an aged heart]‎, Hajime ni [Introduction]:
      毎(まい)日(にち)、生(い)きていくというすごいエネルギーのいる仕(し)事(ごと)を、 “どっこいしょ”、 “よいしょ” とか言(い)って気(き)合(あ)いを入(い)れてこなしつつ、暮(く)らして-いるのです。
      Mainichi, ikiteiku to iu sugoi enerugī no iru shigoto o, “dokkoisho”, “yoisho” toka itte kiai o irete konashi tsutsu, kurashite-iru no desu.
      Every day, continuing this high-energy job called living makes me cry dokkoisho, yoisho, and so on, just getting along.

Noun

よいしょ • (yoisho) 

  1. flattery
    よいしょがうまい
    yoisho ga umai
    good at flattery

Verb

よいしょする • (yoisho suru) suru (stem よいしょし (yoisho suru shi), past よいしょした (yoisho suru shita))

  1. to flatter

Conjugation
Conjugation of "よいしょする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") よいしょし yoisho shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") よいしょし yoisho shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") よいしょする yoisho suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") よいしょする yoisho suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") よいしょすれ yoisho sure
Meireikei ("imperative") よいしょせよ¹
よいしょしろ²		 yoisho seyo¹
yoisho shiro²
Key constructions
Passive よいしょされる yoisho sareru
Causative よいしょさせる
よいしょさす		 yoisho saseru
yoisho sasu
Potential よいしょできる yoisho dekiru
Volitional よいしょしよう yoisho shiyō
Negative よいしょしない yoisho shinai
Negative continuative よいしょせず yoisho sezu
Formal よいしょします yoisho shimasu
Perfective よいしょした yoisho shita
Conjunctive よいしょして yoisho shite
Hypothetical conditional よいしょすれば yoisho sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

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