裏返す

Japanese
Kanji in this term
裏 返
うら
Grade: 6		 かえ > がえ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 裏 (ura, “back side, inside, far side”) +‎ 返す (kaesu, “to flip over, to turn over”).[1][2] The kaesu changes to gaesu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Verb

裏返す (transitive, godan conjugation, hiragana うらがえす, rōmaji uragaesu, historical hiragana うらがへす)

  1. to reverse something, to turn something over, to flip something over
  2. to turn something inside out
  3. to view or consider something from a completely different perspective

Conjugation
Conjugation of "裏返す" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 裏返さ うらがえさ uragaesa
Continuative (連用形) 裏返し うらがえし uragaeshi
Terminal (終止形) 裏返す うらがえす uragaesu
Attributive (連体形) 裏返す うらがえす uragaesu
Hypothetical (仮定形) 裏返せ うらがえせ uragaese
Imperative (命令形) 裏返せ うらがえせ uragaese
Key constructions
Passive 裏返される うらがえされる uragaesareru
Causative 裏返させる
裏返さす		 うらがえさせる
うらがえさす		 uragaesaseru
uragaesasu
Potential 裏返せる うらがえせる uragaeseru
Volitional 裏返そう うらがえそう uragaesō
Negative 裏返さない うらがえさない uragaesanai
Negative continuative 裏返さず うらがえさず uragaesazu
Formal 裏返します うらがえします uragaeshimasu
Perfective 裏返した うらがえした uragaeshita
Conjunctive 裏返して うらがえして uragaeshite
Hypothetical conditional 裏返せば うらがえせば uragaeseba

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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