気取る (きどる, kidoru) Japanese meaning: put on airs | Kotomora

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気取る · godan verb (-ru)

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	気き取どる	気き取どらない
Polite	気き取どります	気き取どりません
Past polite	気き取どりました	気き取どりませんでした
Past	気き取どった	気き取どらなかった
Te-form	気き取どって	気き取どらないで
Desire	気き取どりたい	気き取どりたくない
Potential	気き取どれる	気き取どれない
Passive	気き取どられる	気き取どられない
Causative	気き取どらせる	気き取どらせない
Causative passive	気き取どらせられるalso 気き取どらされる	気き取どらせられないalso 気き取どらされない
Volitional	気き取どろう
Polite volitional	気き取どりましょう
Imperative	気き取どれ	気き取どるな
Conditional	気き取どれば	気き取どらなければ
Tara conditional	気き取どったら	気き取どらなかったら

Meanings

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

put on airs; be affected; act pretentiously

Intransitive; describes someone behaving in a self-important, affected, or pretentious manner. Often used critically.

彼かれはいつも気き取どっていて、

Kanji

気spirit, mind, air
取take, fetch, take up

Transitive / intransitive

気取る is used both intransitively, as in 彼は気取っている (He is putting on airs), and transitively in the pattern …を気取る, as in 彼は紳士を気取っている (He is acting like a gentleman).

Related words· 6

見み栄えを張はる
見栄を張る means to show off or act vain to appear better than one is, while 気取る focuses on affected, pretentious behavior or posing as something one isn't.
振ふりをする sense 2
ふりをする is a general phrase for pretending something is true, whereas 気取る specifically implies adopting an affected, superior persona, often with a critical tone.
装よそおうN1sense 2
装う is a neutral verb meaning to pretend or feign (e.g. 平静を装う), while 気取る carries a critical nuance of acting pretentious or putting on airs.
ぶる
気取る usually describes a deliberate, stylish affectation, while ぶる often carries a more negative or mocking tone about pretending to have some quality.

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澄すますN1
気取る directly means to put on airs or act affected, whereas 澄ます can describe a milder, more composed or prim manner and also carries unrelated literal senses.
構かまえるN1
気取る directly means to act affected or put on airs, while 偉そうに構える describes taking on an attitude or posture that can feel distant or pretentious.

Opposites

謙けん遜そんN2sense 1
謙遜する means to speak or behave modestly, the opposite of 気取る's affected, self-important manner.

Don't confuse with

気け取どる
気取る read きどる means to put on airs or act pretentious, but the same written form read けどる is a completely different verb meaning to sense or suspect something.
洒落しゃれるN1
気取る implies putting on an affected, pretentious air, while 洒落る simply describes genuine good taste or stylishness without that negative connotation.

Word family

気き取どり
affectation; pretension; posturing · posing as; acting like; pretending to be
気き取どり屋や
snob; affected person; poser
夫ふう婦ふ気き取どり
acting like a married couple; posing as a married couple

Built from

気き+取とる

Written forms

気き取どるUsage80%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
気きどるUsage15%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form; not a standard spelling.
きどるUsage6%

Etymology

Compound of 気 (ki, 'spirit, mood') and 取る (toru, 'to take'), literally 'to take on a mood/air'. The meaning 'to put on airs' developed from the idea of adopting an affected attitude.

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