"いそいそ" meaning in Japanese

See いそいそ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [iso̞iso̞] Forms: いそいそ [canonical], イソイソ [canonical], isoiso [romanization]
Etymology: Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”). First attested in a text from 1212. Head templates: {{ja-pos|adverb|イソイソ}} いそいそ or イソイソ • (isoiso)
  1. cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity
    Sense id: en-いそいそ-ja-adv-Ycd7eNYO Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 76 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 77 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Verb

IPA: [iso̞iso̞]
Etymology: Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”). First attested in a text from 1212. Forms: いそいそする [canonical], イソイソする [canonical], isoiso suru [romanization], いそいそし [stem], いそいそした [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], いそいそし [error-unrecognized-form], isoiso shi [error-unrecognized-form], いそいそする [error-unrecognized-form], isoiso suru [error-unrecognized-form], いそいそすれ [error-unrecognized-form], isoiso sure [error-unrecognized-form], いそいそせよ [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], いそいそしろ [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], isoiso seyo [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], isoiso shiro [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], いそいそされる [passive], isoiso sareru [passive], いそいそさせる [causative], いそいそさす [causative], isoiso saseru [causative], isoiso sasu [causative], いそいそできる [potential], isoiso dekiru [potential], いそいそしよう [volitional], isoiso shiyō [volitional], いそいそしない [negative], isoiso shinai [negative], いそいそせず [continuative, negative], isoiso sezu [continuative, negative], いそいそします [formal], isoiso shimasu [formal], いそいそした [perfective], isoiso shita [perfective], いそいそして [conjunctive], isoiso shite [conjunctive], いそいそすれば [conditional, hypothetical], isoiso sureba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to be cheerful, eager, and acting with alacrity
    Sense id: en-いそいそ-ja-verb-ilcSsn7U Categories (other): Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 30 70

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).\nFirst attested in a text from 1212.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "いそいそ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "イソイソ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "adverb",
        "2": "イソイソ"
      },
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      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
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            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
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          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity"
      ],
      "id": "en-いそいそ-ja-adv-Ycd7eNYO",
      "links": [
        [
          "cheerfully",
          "cheerfully"
        ],
        [
          "eagerly",
          "eagerly"
        ],
        [
          "alacrity",
          "alacrity"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iso̞iso̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Daijisen#Online_search_engines",
    "Kōjien",
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "Shinmura Izuru"
  ],
  "word": "いそいそ"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).\nFirst attested in a text from 1212.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "いそいそする",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "イソイソする",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso suru",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそし",
      "roman": "isoiso shi",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそした",
      "roman": "isoiso shita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそし",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそする",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそすれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sure",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそせよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしろ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso seyo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shiro",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso saseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそできる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso dekiru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shiyō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shinai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそせず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sezu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそすれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sureba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be cheerful, eager, and acting with alacrity"
      ],
      "id": "en-いそいそ-ja-verb-ilcSsn7U",
      "links": [
        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
        [
          "eager",
          "eager"
        ],
        [
          "alacrity",
          "alacrity"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iso̞iso̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten"
  ],
  "word": "いそいそ"
}

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    "Japanese hiragana",
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    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese suru verbs",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).\nFirst attested in a text from 1212.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "いそいそ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "イソイソ",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "adverb",
        "2": "イソイソ"
      },
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      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
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    {
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        "cheerfully, eagerly, with alacrity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cheerfully",
          "cheerfully"
        ],
        [
          "eagerly",
          "eagerly"
        ],
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        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iso̞iso̞]"
    }
  ],
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    "Daijisen#Online_search_engines",
    "Kōjien",
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "Shinmura Izuru"
  ],
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}

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    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
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    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese suru verbs",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Cognate with 急ぐ (isogu, “to hurry, to rush”).\nFirst attested in a text from 1212.",
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      "form": "いそいそする",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "イソイソする",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso suru",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそし",
      "roman": "isoiso shi",
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそした",
      "roman": "isoiso shita",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそし",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそする",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそすれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sure",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそせよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしろ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso seyo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shiro",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso saseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそできる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso dekiru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shiyō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shinai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそせず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sezu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso shite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いそいそすれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "isoiso sureba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be cheerful, eager, and acting with alacrity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
        [
          "eager",
          "eager"
        ],
        [
          "alacrity",
          "alacrity"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "other": "いそいそ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[iso̞iso̞]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten"
  ],
  "word": "いそいそ"
}

Download raw JSONL data for いそいそ meaning in Japanese (5.3kB)

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  "title": "いそいそ",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Mizenkei (\"imperfective\")'",
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "いそいそ",
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}

{
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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Ren’yōkei (\"continuative\")'",
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "いそいそ",
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}

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  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "いそいそ",
  "trace": ""
}

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}

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  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Kateikei (\"hypothetical\")'",
  "path": [
    "いそいそ"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "いそいそ",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Meireikei (\"imperative\")'",
  "path": [
    "いそいそ"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "いそいそ",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.