重い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
おも
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *onpo.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "重い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 重く もく [òmókú]
Terminal (終止形) 重い もい
[òmóí]
[òmóꜜì]
Attributive (連体形) 重い もい [òmóí]
Key constructions
Informal negative 重くない もくな [òmókúnáꜜì]
Informal past 重かった かった [òmóꜜkàttà]
Informal negative past 重くなかった もくなかった [òmókúnáꜜkàttà]
Formal 重いです いです [òmóꜜìdèsù]
Conjunctive 重くて くて [òmóꜜkùtè]
Conditional 重ければ ければ [òmóꜜkèrèbà]

Adjective

(おも) • (omoi) -i (adverbial (おも) (omoku))

  1. heavy
    Antonym: 軽い (karui)
    (おも)くて()()げられない
    omokute mochiagerarenai
    too heavy for one to lift
  2. (computing, of computers or programs) sluggish; slow
    • 2019,
      (きゅう)chrome(クローム)(おも)なった。()(どう)(おも)タブ(ひら)のも、()()えるのも(おも)WEB(ウェブ)ページ()()のも(おも)
      Kyū ni Kurōmu ga omokunatta. Kidō mo omoi, tabu o hiraku no mo, kirikaeru no mo omoi, webu pēji o yomikomu no mo omoi.
      My Chrome has suddenly become laggy. It takes forever to start up. Opening and switching tabs takes forever. Loading web pages also takes forever.
  3. (computing, of computer networks) congested; having poor performance
    (かい)(せん)(おも)
    kaisen ga omoi
    the networks are congested
  4. (computing, of files) large
    (おも)データを(おく)
    omoi dēta o okuru
    to transfer large amounts of data

Inflection

Synonyms

Derived terms

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
  2. 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
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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