眠る

Japanese
Kanji in this term
眠
ねむ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
See also 眠り
See also 眠らせる

Etymology

Older form is ねぶる, from the same root with Old Japanese 寝 (nu) (whence 寝る (neru, “to sleep; to lie down”)), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *ná- (cf. 寝す (nasu, “(honorific) to sleep”)). Cognate with Northern Amami-Oshima ねぃぶりゅり (nɨburjuri), Okinawan にんじゅん (niɴdʑuɴ), Miyako にぅ゙ (niʋ) and Yonaguni にんどぅん (niɴduɴ).[1]

Alternative forms

Verb

眠る (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana ねむる, rōmaji nemuru)

  1. to sleep
  2. (figuratively) to die; to be buried

Synonyms

Conjugation
Conjugation of "眠る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 眠ら ねむら nemura
Continuative (連用形) 眠り ねむり nemuri
Terminal (終止形) 眠る ねむる nemuru
Attributive (連体形) 眠る ねむる nemuru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 眠れ ねむれ nemure
Imperative (命令形) 眠れ ねむれ nemure
Key constructions
Passive 眠られる ねむられる nemurareru
Causative 眠らせる
眠らす		 ねむらせる
ねむらす		 nemuraseru
nemurasu
Potential 眠れる ねむれる nemureru
Volitional 眠ろう ねむろう nemurō
Negative 眠らない ねむらない nemuranai
Negative continuative 眠らず ねむらず nemurazu
Formal 眠ります ねむります nemurimasu
Perfective 眠った ねむった nemutta
Conjunctive 眠って ねむって nemutte
Hypothetical conditional 眠れば ねむれば nemureba

References
  1. Japanese etymology : Query result (citing Martin S. E., The Japanese Language Through Time, 1987)
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