報じる

Japanese
Kanji in this term
報
ほう
Grade: 5

Verb

報じる (transitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana ほうじる, rōmaji hōjiru)

  1. to repay
  2. to report, to inform
    テレビは北朝鮮 (きたちょうせん)の軍 (ぐん)事 (じ)行 (こう)動 (どう)について報 (ほう)じていた。
    Terebi wa kitachōsen no gunji kōdō ni tsuite hōjiteita.
    The television was reporting on the North Korean military attacks.

Conjugation
Conjugation of "報じる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 報じ ほうじ hōji
Continuative (連用形) 報じ ほうじ hōji
Terminal (終止形) 報じる ほうじる hōjiru
Attributive (連体形) 報じる ほうじる hōjiru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 報じれ ほうじれ hōjire
Imperative (命令形) 報じよ¹
報じろ²		 ほうじよ¹
ほうじろ²		 hōjiyo¹
hōjiro²
Key constructions
Passive 報じられる ほうじられる hōjirareru
Causative 報じさせる
報じさす		 ほうじさせる
ほうじさす		 hōjisaseru
hōjisasu
Potential 報じられる
報じれる³		 ほうじられる
ほうじれる³		 hōjirareru
hōjireru³
Volitional 報じよう ほうじよう hōjiyō
Negative 報じない
報じぬ
報じん		 ほうじない
ほうじぬ
ほうじん		 hōjinai
hōjinu
hōjin
Negative continuative 報じず ほうじず hōjizu
Formal 報じます ほうじます hōjimasu
Perfective 報じた ほうじた hōjita
Conjunctive 報じて ほうじて hōjite
Hypothetical conditional 報じれば ほうじれば hōjireba
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
³ Colloquial potential

References
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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