卑しめる

Japanese

Alternative spellings
卑しめる (kyūjitai) 賎しめる

卑(いや)しめる • (iyashimeru) transitive ichidan (stem 卑(いや)しめ (iyashime), past 卑(いや)しめた (iyashimeta))

to despise, to look down on
冷(れい)戦(せん)時(じ)代(だい)には、アニメソングを「子(こ)供(ども)っぽい」と卑(いや)しめる人(ひと)々(びと)も幾(いく)らかいた。
Reisen jidai ni wa, anime songu o “kodomoppoi” to iyashimeru hitobito mo ikuraka ita.
During the Cold War, there were some people who despised anime songs as "childish."

Conjugation of "卑しめる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	卑しめ	いやしめ	iyashime
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	卑しめ	いやしめ	iyashime
Shūshikei ("terminal")	卑しめる	いやしめる	iyashimeru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	卑しめる	いやしめる	iyashimeru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	卑しめれ	いやしめれ	iyashimere
Meireikei ("imperative")	卑しめよ¹ 卑しめろ²	いやしめよ¹ いやしめろ²	iyashimeyo¹ iyashimero²
Key constructions
Passive	卑しめられる	いやしめられる	iyashimerareru
Causative	卑しめさせる卑しめさす	いやしめさせるいやしめさす	iyashimesaseru iyashimesasu
Potential	卑しめられる卑しめれる³	いやしめられるいやしめれる³	iyashimerareru iyashimereru³
Volitional	卑しめよう	いやしめよう	iyashimeyō
Negative	卑しめない卑しめぬ卑しめん	いやしめないいやしめぬいやしめん	iyashimenai iyashimenu iyashimen
Negative continuative	卑しめず	いやしめず	iyashimezu
Formal	卑しめます	いやしめます	iyashimemasu
Perfective	卑しめた	いやしめた	iyashimeta
Conjunctive	卑しめて	いやしめて	iyashimete
Hypothetical conditional	卑しめれば	いやしめれば	iyashimereba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN