I Love Kanji突っ突く (tsuttsuku)
突っ突く (つっつく, tsuttsuku) is a Japanese verb meaning “to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge”. It is usually written in kana. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists.
- Reading
- つっつく
- Romaji
- tsuttsuku
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge · godan verb, transitive · usually written in kana
- to peck at (one's food); to pick at · godan verb, transitive · usually written in kana
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.) · godan verb, transitive · usually written in kana
- to egg on; to put up to · godan verb, transitive · usually written in kana
Example sentences
ハゲタカが突っつく死んだ鹿とか、他の動物の食べ残しとか、 そういう腐った肉を死肉と書きました。
A dead deer being pecked by vultures, remains partly eaten by other animals, that sort of rotten meat is called 'carrion'.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 突っ突く
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in く. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 突っ突く | つっつく tsuttsuku |
| Polite (~masu) | 突っ突きます | つっつきます tsuttsukimasu |
| Negative | 突っ突かない | つっつかない tsuttsukanai |
| Polite negative | 突っ突きません | つっつきません tsuttsukimasen |
| Past | 突っ突いた | つっついた tsuttsuita |
| Polite past | 突っ突きました | つっつきました tsuttsukimashita |
| Negative past | 突っ突かなかった | つっつかなかった tsuttsukanakatta |
| Te-form | 突っ突いて | つっついて tsuttsuite |
| Potential | 突っ突ける | つっつける tsuttsukeru |
| Passive | 突っ突かれる | つっつかれる tsuttsukareru |
| Causative | 突っ突かせる | つっつかせる tsuttsukaseru |
| Volitional | 突っ突こう | つっつこう tsuttsukou |
| Imperative | 突っ突け | つっつけ tsuttsuke |
| Conditional (~ba) | 突っ突けば | つっつけば tsuttsukeba |
Kanji in 突っ突く
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 突っ突く.
衝突しょうとつcollision突くつくto prick突然とつぜんabrupt煙突えんとつchimney突っ込むつっこむto thrust (something) into (something)突き当たりつきあたりend (of a street, hallway, etc.)突き当たるつきあたるto run into突如とつじょsuddenly突破とっぱbreaking through突くつつくto poke (repeatedly, lightly)突っ張るつっぱるto cramp up
Source: JMdict entry 1456960 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.