尻尾を振る
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 尻 | 尾 | 振 |
| しっぽ | ふ Grade: S | |
| Grade: S | Grade: S | |
| Irregular | kun’yomi | |
Etymology
From 尻尾 (“tail”) + を (“direct object marker”) + 振る (“to wag”)
Verb
尻尾を振る • (shippo o furu) godan (stem 尻尾を振り (shippo o furi), past 尻尾を振った (shippo o futta))
- (idiomatic) to flatter; to butter up
- to wag one's tail
Conjugation
Conjugation of "尻尾を振る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 尻尾を振ら | しっぽをふら | shippōfura |
| Continuative (連用形) | 尻尾を振り | しっぽをふり | shippōfuri |
| Terminal (終止形) | 尻尾を振る | しっぽをふる | shippōfuru |
| Attributive (連体形) | 尻尾を振る | しっぽをふる | shippōfuru |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 尻尾を振れ | しっぽをふれ | shippōfure |
| Imperative (命令形) | 尻尾を振れ | しっぽをふれ | shippōfure |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 尻尾を振られる | しっぽをふられる | shippōfurareru |
| Causative | 尻尾を振らせる 尻尾を振らす | しっぽをふらせる しっぽをふらす | shippōfuraseru shippōfurasu |
| Potential | 尻尾を振れる | しっぽをふれる | shippōfureru |
| Volitional | 尻尾を振ろう | しっぽをふろう | shippōfurō |
| Negative | 尻尾を振らない | しっぽをふらない | shippōfuranai |
| Negative continuative | 尻尾を振らず | しっぽをふらず | shippōfurazu |
| Formal | 尻尾を振ります | しっぽをふります | shippōfurimasu |
| Perfective | 尻尾を振った | しっぽをふった | shippōfutta |
| Conjunctive | 尻尾を振って | しっぽをふって | shippōfutte |
| Hypothetical conditional | 尻尾を振れば | しっぽをふれば | shippōfureba |
See also
- 尻尾を巻く (shippo o maku)
- 尻尾を掴む (shippo o tsukamu)
- 尻尾を出す (shippo o dasu)