沿う
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 沿 |
| そ Grade: 6 |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology
From Old Japanese. Used in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[1]
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) そう [sòú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- (Tokyo) そう [sóꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
- IPA(key): [so̞ɯ̟ᵝ]
- Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "沿う"
| Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary | |||
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal (終止形) Attributive (連体形) | 沿う | そう そう | [sòú] [sóꜜù] |
| Imperative (命令形) | 沿え | そえ そえ | [sòé] [sóꜜè] |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 沿われる | そわれる そわれる | [sòwárérú] [sòwáréꜜrù] |
| Causative | 沿わせる | そわせる そわせる | [sòwásérú] [sòwáséꜜrù] |
| Potential | 沿える | そえる そえる | [sòérú] [sòéꜜrù] |
| Volitional | 沿おう | そおー | [sòóꜜò] |
| Negative | 沿わない | そわない そわない | [sòwánáí] [sòwáꜜnàì] |
| Negative perfective | 沿わなかった | そわなかった そわなかった | [sòwánáꜜkàttà] [sòwáꜜnàkàttà] |
| Formal | 沿います | そいます | [sòímáꜜsù] |
| Perfective | 沿った | そった そった | [sòttá] [sóꜜttà] |
| Conjunctive | 沿って | そって そって | [sòtté] [sóꜜttè] |
| Hypothetical conditional | 沿えば | そえば そえば | [sòéꜜbà] [sóꜜèbà] |
Verb
沿う • (sou) intransitive godan (stem 沿い (soi), past 沿った (sotta))
- to run along (a river, railway, road, etc.), to line (the shore etc.)
- to follow (rules, guidelines, etc.)
Usage notes
Often used in a kind of adverbial phrase construction, ...に沿って... (... ni sotte ...), with a general meaning of along, in keeping with, along the lines of, in parallel with.
- 自分の期待に沿って生活する
- jibun no kitai ni sotte seikatsu suru
- to live in keeping with one's own expectations
Conjugation
Conjugation of "沿う" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 沿わ | そわ | sowa |
| Continuative (連用形) | 沿い | そい | soi |
| Terminal (終止形) | 沿う | そう | sou |
| Attributive (連体形) | 沿う | そう | sou |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 沿え | そえ | soe |
| Imperative (命令形) | 沿え | そえ | soe |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 沿われる | そわれる | sowareru |
| Causative | 沿わせる 沿わす | そわせる そわす | sowaseru sowasu |
| Potential | 沿える | そえる | soeru |
| Volitional | 沿おう | そおう | soō |
| Negative | 沿わない | そわない | sowanai |
| Negative continuative | 沿わず | そわず | sowazu |
| Formal | 沿います | そいます | soimasu |
| Perfective | 沿った | そった | sotta |
| Conjunctive | 沿って | そって | sotte |
| Hypothetical conditional | 沿えば | そえば | soeba |
References
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3485), text here
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN