相続

Japanese

Alternative spelling
相續 (kyūjitai)

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Ultimately from Middle Chinese 相續 (literally “successively, one after another + to succeed, to continue”). First attested in Japanese in 820.^[1]

相(そう)続(ぞく) • (sōzoku) ^{←さうぞく (sauzoku)^?}

[from 1283] succession or inheritance of a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role
[from 1886] (law) succession or inheritance of the assets and liabilities of a deceased person (the act of inheriting, rather than the thing inherited)
[from 820] (archaic, possibly obsolete) the act of carrying on with an action, or of continuing to do something without cease

相(そう)続(ぞく)する • (sōzoku suru) ^{←さうぞく (sauzoku)^?}suru (stem 相(そう)続(ぞく)し (sōzoku shi), past 相(そう)続(ぞく)した (sōzoku shita))

[from 1283] to succeed to or inherit a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role
[from 1886] (law) to inherit the assets and liabilities of a deceased person

Conjugation of "相続する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	相続し	そうぞくし	sōzoku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	相続し	そうぞくし	sōzoku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	相続する	そうぞくする	sōzoku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	相続する	そうぞくする	sōzoku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	相続すれ	そうぞくすれ	sōzoku sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	相続せよ¹ 相続しろ²	そうぞくせよ¹ そうぞくしろ²	sōzoku seyo¹ sōzoku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	相続される	そうぞくされる	sōzoku sareru
Causative	相続させる相続さす	そうぞくさせるそうぞくさす	sōzoku saseru sōzoku sasu
Potential	相続できる	そうぞくできる	sōzoku dekiru
Volitional	相続しよう	そうぞくしよう	sōzoku shiyō
Negative	相続しない	そうぞくしない	sōzoku shinai
Negative continuative	相続せず	そうぞくせず	sōzoku sezu
Formal	相続します	そうぞくします	sōzoku shimasu
Perfective	相続した	そうぞくした	sōzoku shita
Conjunctive	相続して	そうぞくして	sōzoku shite
Hypothetical conditional	相続すれば	そうぞくすれば	sōzoku sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

^ “相続”, in 日本国語大辞典‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN