衝動買い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: S
どう
Grade: 3
か > が
Grade: 2

Etymology

衝動 (impulse) + 買い (buying). The kai changes to gai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しょーどーがい [shòódóógáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕo̞ːdo̞ːɡa̠i]

Noun

(しょう)(どう)() • (shōdōgai) 

  1. impulse buying
  2. impulse purchase, impulse buy
    衝動買(しょうどうが)する(ひと)
    shōdōgai o suru hito
    an impulse buyer

Verb

(しょう)(どう)()する • (shōdōgai suru) transitive suru (stem (しょう)(どう)() (shōdōgai shi), past (しょう)(どう)()した (shōdōgai shita))

  1. to make an impulse purchase

Conjugation

References

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