"もつれあう" meaning in Japanese

See もつれあう in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [mo̞t͡sɨɾe̞a̠ɯ̟]
Etymology: From 縺(もつ)れ (motsure, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 縺(もつ)れる (motsureru)) + 合(あ)う (-au, “together”). Etymology templates: {{ja-r|連%用%形|れん%よう%けい|stem or continuative form|rom=ren'yōkei}} 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”), {{ja-r|縺れる|もつれる||pos=}} 縺(もつ)れる (motsureru), {{ja-etym-renyokei|縺れる|もつれる|nodot=1}} 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 縺(もつ)れる (motsureru), {{ja-compound|縺れ|もつれ|合う|-あう|pos1=連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (<span class="mention-tr tr">ren'yōkei</span>, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 縺(もつ)れる (<span class="mention-tr tr">motsureru</span>)|t2=together}} 縺(もつ)れ (motsure, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 縺(もつ)れる (motsureru)) + 合(あ)う (-au, “together”) Head templates: {{ja-verb|hhira=もつれあふ|type=1}} もつれあう • (motsureau) ^(←もつれあふ (motureafu)?)godan (stem もつれあい (motsureai), past もつれあった (motsureatta)) Forms: もつれあう ^godan [canonical], motsureau [romanization], motureafu [romanization], もつれあい [stem], もつれあった [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], もつれあわ [error-unrecognized-form], motsureawa [error-unrecognized-form], もつれあい [error-unrecognized-form], motsureai [error-unrecognized-form], もつれあう [error-unrecognized-form], motsureau [error-unrecognized-form], もつれあえ [error-unrecognized-form], motsureae [error-unrecognized-form], もつれあわれる [passive], motsureawareru [passive], もつれあわせる [causative], もつれあわす [causative], motsureawaseru [causative], motsureawasu [causative], もつれあえる [potential], motsureaeru [potential], もつれあおう [volitional], motsureaō [volitional], もつれあわない [negative], motsureawanai [negative], もつれあわず [continuative, negative], motsureawazu [continuative, negative], もつれあいます [formal], motsureaimasu [formal], もつれあった [perfective], motsureatta [perfective], もつれあって [conjunctive], motsureatte [conjunctive], もつれあえば [conditional, hypothetical], motsureaeba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to become tangled together
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    {
      "form": "もつれあわれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "motsureawaseru",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "motsureawasu",
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      "form": "もつれあえる",
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      "form": "motsureaeru",
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      "form": "もつれあおう",
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      "form": "もつれあわない",
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    {
      "form": "motsureawanai",
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        "negative"
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    },
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      "form": "もつれあわず",
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      "form": "motsureawazu",
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      "form": "もつれあいます",
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        "formal"
      ]
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      "form": "motsureaimasu",
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "もつれあった",
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      "form": "motsureatta",
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      "form": "もつれあって",
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        "to become tangled together"
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      "ipa": "[mo̞t͡sɨɾe̞a̠ɯ̟]"
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}
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      "form": "もつれあった",
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      "form": "もつれあわ",
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      "form": "もつれあい",
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      "form": "もつれあう",
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    {
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    {
      "form": "もつれあえ",
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわれる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあえる",
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        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureaeru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあおう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
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    },
    {
      "form": "motsureaō",
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        "volitional"
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    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわない",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあわず",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "continuative",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureawazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあいます",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "motsureaimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあった",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "perfective"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "motsureatta",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "もつれあって",
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    },
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      "form": "motsureatte",
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      "form": "もつれあえば",
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        "Japanese verbs",
        "Japanese verbs without transitivity",
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      "glosses": [
        "to become tangled together"
      ],
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        [
          "tangled",
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          "together",
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    {
      "other": "もつれあう"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mo̞t͡sɨɾe̞a̠ɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "もつれあう"
}

Download raw JSONL data for もつれあう meaning in Japanese (5.4kB)

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Rentaikei (\"attributive\")'",
  "path": [
    "もつれあう"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "もつれあう",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Kateikei (\"hypothetical\")'",
  "path": [
    "もつれあう"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "もつれあう",
  "trace": ""
}

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

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). 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.