憩う
いこう · ikou (also spelled iko)
To rest, to relax, to repose
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falls after mora 2 · what is pitch accent?
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Conjugation
| Polite (ます形) | 憩いますいこいます |
| Polite negative (ません) | 憩いませんいこいません |
| Polite past (ました) | 憩いましたいこいました |
| Polite past negative (ませんでした) | 憩いませんでしたいこいませんでした |
| Let us ~ (ましょう) | 憩いましょういこいましょう |
| Masu-stem (連用形) | 憩いいこい |
| Want to ~ (たい形) | 憩いたいいこいたい |
| While ~ing (ながら) | 憩いながらいこいながら |
| Te-form (て形) | 憩っていこって |
| Plain past (た形) | 憩ったいこった |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 憩ったらいこったら |
| Progressive (ている形) | 憩っているいこっている |
| Plain negative (ない形) | 憩わないいこわない |
| Plain past negative (なかった形) | 憩わなかったいこわなかった |
| Negative te-form (なくて) | 憩わなくていこわなくて |
| Potential (可能形) | 憩えるいこえる |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 憩えばいこえば |
| Imperative (命令形) | 憩えいこえ |
| Volitional (意向形) | 憩おういこおう |
| Passive (受身形) | 憩われるいこわれる |
| Causative (使役形) | 憩わせるいこわせる |
| Causative-passive (使役受身形) | 憩わされるいこわされる |
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What does 憩う mean?
To rest, to relax, to repose.
How do you pronounce 憩う?
いこう (ikou). Pitch accent: nakadaka — falls after mora 2. Press Listen above to hear it.
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