無くなる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

The adverbial -く (-ku) form of adjective 無い (nai, not, missing, not present) + verb なる (naru, to become): literally, "to become not, to become nonexistent".

Cognate with ()くなる (naku naru).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) くなる [nàkú nárú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [na̠kɯ̟ᵝ na̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "無くなる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
無くなる くなる [nàkúnárú]
Imperative (命令形) 無くなれ くなれ [nàkúnáré]
Key constructions
Passive 無くなられる くなられる [nàkúnárárérú]
Causative 無くならせる くならせる [nàkúnárásérú]
Potential - - -
Volitional 無くなろう くなろ [nàkúnáróꜜò]
Negative 無くならない くならない [nàkúnáránáí]
Negative perfective 無くならなかった くならなかった [nàkúnáránáꜜkàttà]
Formal 無くなります くなりま [nàkúnárímáꜜsù]
Perfective 無くなった くなった [nàkúnáttá]
Conjunctive 無くなって くなって [nàkúnátté]
Hypothetical conditional 無くなれば くなれ [nàkúnáréꜜbà]

Verb

()くなる • (naku naru) intransitive godan (stem ()くなり (naku nari), past ()くなった (naku natta))

  1. to disappear, to fade, to get lost

Conjugation

References

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