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表層形
出会い
デアイ
動詞

出会い (デアイ)

Deai · であい — to meet (by chance), to come across, to run across, to encounter, to happen upon; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)

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出会い in rōmaji: deai.

動詞 一般 * *
📝 出会う 🔤 五段-ワア行 📐 連用形-一般
Updated: 2026年8月15日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
出会い
見出し語 (Lemma)
出会う
読み (Reading)
デアイ
品詞 (POS)
動詞・一般・*・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
五段-ワア行
活用形 (Conj. Form)
連用形-一般
表記 (Orthography)
出会い
読み・基本形
デアウ
表記・基本形
出会う
見出し語の読み
デアウ
💡 English Meaning

出会い means “to meet (by chance), to come across, to run across, to encounter, to happen upon; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)” — full definition & examples →

⭐ Dictionary Form

出会う (デアウ) — main entry →

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デアイ
Lemma: 出会う
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⚡ 五段 (Godan/U-verb) Conjugations
ます形 (Polite)
出会います
て形 (Te-form)
出会って
過去形 (Past)
出会った
否定形 (Negative)
出会わない
意向形 (Volitional)
出会いましょう
可能形 (Potential)
出会える
受身形 (Passive)
出会われる
使役形 (Causative)
出会わせる
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動詞 (verbs) come at the end of a Japanese sentence. They conjugate for tense, politeness, negation, and mood — this entry shows the base (dictionary) form.
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The surface form (出会い) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (出会う) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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