起こる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
起る

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *əkəru.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) [òkóꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [2])[1]
  • IPA(key): [o̞ko̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "起こる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
起こる [òkóꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 起これ [òkóꜜrè]
Key constructions
Passive 起こられる こられ [òkóráréꜜrù]
Causative 起こらせる こらせ [òkóráséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 起ころう ころ [òkóróꜜò]
Negative 起こらない こらない [òkóráꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 起こらなかった こらなかった [òkóráꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 起こります こりま [òkórímáꜜsù]
Perfective 起こった った [òkóꜜttà]
Conjunctive 起こって って [òkóꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional 起これば れば [òkóꜜrèbà]

Verb

()こる • (okoru) intransitive godan (stem ()こり (okori), past ()こった (okotta))

Japanese verb pair
active 起こす
mediopassive 起こる
  1. happen
  2. occur

Conjugation

References

  1. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō
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