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追いつく (おいつく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N3 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 追いつく · godan verb (-ku)
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 追お いつく 追お いつかない Polite 追お いつきます 追お いつきません Past polite 追お いつきました 追お いつきませんでした Past 追お いついた 追お いつかなかった Te-form 追お いついて 追お いつかないで Desire 追お いつきたい 追お いつきたくない Potential 追お いつける 追お いつけない Passive 追お いつかれる 追お いつかれない Causative 追お いつかせる 追お いつかせない Causative passive 追お いつかせられる also 追お いつかされる 追お いつかせられない also 追お いつかされない Volitional 追お いつこう Polite volitional 追お いつきましょう Imperative 追お いつけ 追お いつくな Conditional 追お いつけば 追お いつかなければ Tara conditional 追お いついたら 追お いつかなかったら
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選せん
手しゅ
に
追お
いつい
た
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He ran with all his might and caught up with the runner ahead.
There are too many orders, and production cannot keep up.
Usage patterns 〈 相あい 手て 〉 に 追お いつく to catch up with someone
I ran as fast as I could and finally caught up with the person ahead of me.
〈 事こと 〉 をしても 追お いつかない even doing something won't make up for it
Regretting it now won't make up for it.
〈 事こと 〉 が 追お いつかない for something (production, supply, work) to be unable to keep up
Orders have increased so much that production can't keep up.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 に 追お いつく to catch up to a leading position or level
I closed the gap quickly in the second half and caught up to the leader.
Expressions 追お いつき 追お い 越こ せ catch up and overtake; pass after catching up 稼かせ ぐに 追お いつく 貧びん 乏ぼう なし poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune Kanji 追 chase, drive away, follow 付 adhere, attach, refer to Related words 追いつく means to reach the same position or level as someone, while 追い越す means to overtake and go beyond them.
追いつく in its 'make up for' sense overlaps with 埋め合わせる, but 埋め合わせる is the more general, deliberate act of compensating for a loss, while 追いつく (often negative as 追いつかない) stresses that the compensation is no longer enough.
追いつく is about physically or figuratively catching up to a person, level, or pace, while 間に合う means being in time or being sufficient for a deadline.
追いつく is the everyday word for catching up with someone or something, while 追及 in this literal sense is a stiff, rarely used alternative.
追いつく means to fully catch up and eliminate the gap, while 追い上げる describes the ongoing process of closing that gap without necessarily reaching the target.
Opposites 追いつく means to catch up to someone or something, while 遅れる means to fall behind or be late.
追いつく means to catch up with someone, the opposite of 振り切る's sense of pulling away and leaving them behind.
Don't confuse with 追いかける describes the act of chasing after someone, while 追いつく describes actually succeeding in catching up to them.
追いつく means to catch up to the same level or position, whereas 追い抜く means to go past and get ahead of that point.
Written forms 追お いつく Usage 89%
Common mixed-kana spelling, with the verb ending written in hiragana.
追お い 付つ く Usage 9%
Common full-kanji spelling using 付く; interchangeable with 追いつく in ordinary use.
おいつく Usage 1%
追お い 着つ く Usage 1%
Etymology A native Japanese compound of 追い, the continuative form of 追う, and 付く or 着く, giving the idea of reaching or coming up to something after pursuing it. The exact historical spelling preference is not specified.
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追い越す means to pass and go beyond someone, whereas 追い付く means only to catch up to the same point, not to go past it.
rarely-used kanji form
Rare kanji form; understandable but not the usual spelling.
追おい 付つ く Usage <1%
search-only kanji form
Search-only form; not recommended for normal writing.
