See 訊ねる in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"form": "tazunereba",
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"tags": [
"conditional",
"hypothetical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "たずねる",
"hhira": "たづねる",
"type": "2"
},
"expansion": "訊(たず)ねる • (tazuneru) ^(←たづねる (taduneru)?)ichidan (stem 訊(たず)ね (tazune), past 訊(たず)ねた (tazuneta))",
"name": "ja-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese ichidan verbs",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with manual fragments",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese shimo ichidan verbs",
"Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
"Japanese terms historically spelled with づ",
"Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
"Japanese terms read with kun'yomi",
"Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 訊 read as たず",
"Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with homophones",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese verbs",
"Japanese verbs without transitivity",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to ask"
],
"links": [
[
"ask",
"ask"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "たずねる"
},
{
"ipa": "[ta̠zɨne̞ɾɯ̟]"
},
{
"homophone": "訪ねる"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "tazuneru",
"word": "尋ねる: to ask"
},
{
"word": "to inquire"
},
{
"roman": "kiku",
"word": "聞く: to listen"
},
{
"word": "to ask"
},
{
"english": "e.g., a question",
"roman": "kakeru",
"ruby": [
[
"掛",
"か"
]
],
"translation": "e.g., a question",
"word": "掛ける: to pose"
}
],
"word": "訊ねる"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 訊ねる meaning in Japanese (8.3kB)
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"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Mizenkei (\"imperfective\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "訊ねる",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Ren’yōkei (\"continuative\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
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"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Shūshikei (\"terminal\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
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"section": "Japanese",
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"title": "訊ねる",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Rentaikei (\"attributive\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "訊ねる",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Kateikei (\"hypothetical\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "訊ねる",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Meireikei (\"imperative\")'",
"path": [
"訊ねる"
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"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "訊ねる",
"trace": ""
}
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