I Love Kanjiぺこぺこ (pekopeko)
ぺこぺこ is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “very hungry; starving”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ぺこぺこ
- Romaji
- pekopeko
- Word class
- Noun + する (suru verb)
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- very hungry; starving; famished · な-adjective · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- bowing repeatedly; kowtowing; bowing and scraping; being obsequious; being servile · adverb, suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- denting; buckling; giving (in) · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb, な-adjective · onomatopoeia / mimetic
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of ぺこぺこ
Noun + する (suru verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | ぺこぺこする | ぺこぺこする pekopekosuru |
| Polite (~masu) | ぺこぺこします | ぺこぺこします pekopekoshimasu |
| Negative | ぺこぺこしない | ぺこぺこしない pekopekoshinai |
| Polite negative | ぺこぺこしません | ぺこぺこしません pekopekoshimasen |
| Past | ぺこぺこした | ぺこぺこした pekopekoshita |
| Polite past | ぺこぺこしました | ぺこぺこしました pekopekoshimashita |
| Negative past | ぺこぺこしなかった | ぺこぺこしなかった pekopekoshinakatta |
| Te-form | ぺこぺこして | ぺこぺこして pekopekoshite |
| Potential | ぺこぺこできる | ぺこぺこできる pekopekodekiru |
| Passive | ぺこぺこされる | ぺこぺこされる pekopekosareru |
| Causative | ぺこぺこさせる | ぺこぺこさせる pekopekosaseru |
| Volitional | ぺこぺこしよう | ぺこぺこしよう pekopekoshiyou |
| Imperative | ぺこぺこしろ | ぺこぺこしろ pekopekoshiro |
| Conditional (~ba) | ぺこぺこすれば | ぺこぺこすれば pekopekosureba |
Source: JMdict entry 1011540 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.