憑く

Japanese

Kanji in this term
憑
つ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) つく [tsúꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]
(Tokyo) つく [tsùkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2] non-lexical pitch that some speakers employ to reconcile coinciding devoicing and accenting
IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥kɯ̟]

Verb

憑(つ)く • (tsuku) transitive godan (stem 憑(つ)き (tsuki), past 憑(つ)いた (tsuita))

possess, haunt

Conjugation

Conjugation of "憑く" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	憑か	つか	tsuka
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	憑き	つき	tsuki
Shūshikei ("terminal")	憑く	つく	tsuku
Rentaikei ("attributive")	憑く	つく	tsuku
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	憑け	つけ	tsuke
Meireikei ("imperative")	憑け	つけ	tsuke
Key constructions
Passive	憑かれる	つかれる	tsukareru
Causative	憑かせる憑かす	つかせるつかす	tsukaseru tsukasu
Potential	憑ける	つける	tsukeru
Volitional	憑こう	つこう	tsukō
Negative	憑かない	つかない	tsukanai
Negative continuative	憑かず	つかず	tsukazu
Formal	憑きます	つきます	tsukimasu
Perfective	憑いた	ついた	tsuita
Conjunctive	憑いて	ついて	tsuite
Hypothetical conditional	憑けば	つけば	tsukeba

Synonyms

取(と)り付(つ)く (toritsuku)

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN