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ちぎる (chigiru)

to pledge, to promise, to swear

  • JLPT N1
  • Godan verb
  • Pitch 2

Meaning

契る (ちぎる, chigiru) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “to pledge, to promise, to swear”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 7

紙かみを細こまかくちぎってください。

Please tear the paper into pieces.

1/4カットの白菜を太めの千切りにザクザク切る。

Cut the quartered pak-choi into, slightly wide, strips.

忠興はこれを咎め千世を離縁して前田利長の前田家と縁を切るよう忠隆に命じた。

Tadaoki condemned this and ordered Tadataka to divorce Chiyo and cut ties with Toshinaga Maeda's Maeda family.

何千頭ものバッファローが、隊列を組んで何時間も線路を横切ることがあるのだ。

Thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours in compact ranks.

Conjugation table

契る (ちぎる) is a godan verb (u-verb). Every major form with romaji:

FormJapaneseRomaji
Dictionary契る ちぎるchigiru
Negative契らない ちぎらないchigiranai
Past契った ちぎったchigitta
Past negative契らなかった ちぎらなかったchigiranakatta
Polite (ます)契ります ちぎりますchigirimasu
Polite negative契りません ちぎりませんchigirimasen
Polite past契りました ちぎりましたchigirimashita
Polite past negative契りませんでした ちぎりませんでしたchigirimasendeshita
Te-form契って ちぎってchigitte
Conditional (ば)契れば ちぎればchigireba
Conditional (たら)契ったら ちぎったらchigittara
Potential契れる ちぎれるchigireru
Passive契られる ちぎられるchigirareru
Causative契らせる ちぎらせるchigiraseru
Causative-passive契らせられる ちぎらせられるchigiraserareru
Volitional契ろう ちぎろうchigirou
Volitional polite契りましょう ちぎりましょうchigirimashou
Imperative契れ ちぎれchigire
Desire (たい)契りたい ちぎりたいchigiritai

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