引っ込む (hikkomu)
to draw back,to sink,to cave in
- JLPT N2
- Godan verb
- Pitch 3
- #15951 most frequent
Meaning
引っ込む (ひっこむ, hikkomu) is a JLPT N2 verb meaning “to draw back,to sink,to cave in”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
ダイエットをしてお腹が引っ込みました。
My stomach flattened out as a result of dieting.
無理が通れば道理が引っ込む。
Might makes right.
無理が通れば道理が引っ込む.
Where might is master, justice is servant.
今までどこに引っこんでいたのですか。
Where've you been keeping yourself?
彼女の家は本通りから引っ込んだ所にある。
Her house stands back from the road.
（幕の後、主人公役が花道で六方で引っ込む形もある）。
(The ending style sometimes takes the following form: After the main curtain is closed, the principal actor disappears from the stage through hanamichi (the passage through the audience to the stage) in the roppo movement (a spirited movement associated with the mie (a special pose)).
真夏日には屋内にひっこんで太陽を避けるしか手がないよ。
All I want to do during the dog days is stay indoors and keep out of the sun.
猪より先へ逸散に、飛ぶがごとくに花道を引っ込む（非常に技巧的に難しい）。
Like the wind, he runs down the hanamichi as fast as he can ahead of the inoshishi (this performance is technically very difficult) and exits the stage.
この時クランク本体２と噛み合っているギア４によってクランク本体２は引っ込む。
The crank body 2 is retracted by the gear 4 engaged with the crank body 2 in this condition.
私は、新居へ移ると共に、私の部屋へ引っ込んで、自分で炊事できるだけの道具ーー土釜、土鍋、七輪の類をととのえた。
When I moved into my new home, I just brought with me the things that I needed for cooking, an earthen rice cooker, an earthenware pot and an earthen charcoal brazier.
Conjugation table
引っ込む (ひっこむ) is a godan verb (u-verb). Every major form with romaji:
| Form | Japanese | Romaji |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 引っ込む ひっこむ | hikkomu |
| Negative | 引っ込まない ひっこまない | hikkomanai |
| Past | 引っ込んだ ひっこんだ | hikkonda |
| Past negative | 引っ込まなかった ひっこまなかった | hikkomanakatta |
| Polite (ます) | 引っ込みます ひっこみます | hikkomimasu |
| Polite negative | 引っ込みません ひっこみません | hikkomimasen |
| Polite past | 引っ込みました ひっこみました | hikkomimashita |
| Polite past negative | 引っ込みませんでした ひっこみませんでした | hikkomimasendeshita |
| Te-form | 引っ込んで ひっこんで | hikkonde |
| Conditional (ば) | 引っ込めば ひっこめば | hikkomeba |
| Conditional (たら) | 引っ込んだら ひっこんだら | hikkondara |
| Potential | 引っ込める ひっこめる | hikkomeru |
| Passive | 引っ込まれる ひっこまれる | hikkomareru |
| Causative | 引っ込ませる ひっこませる | hikkomaseru |
| Causative-passive | 引っ込ませられる ひっこませられる | hikkomaserareru |
| Volitional | 引っ込もう ひっこもう | hikkomou |
| Volitional polite | 引っ込みましょう ひっこみましょう | hikkomimashou |
| Imperative | 引っ込め ひっこめ | hikkome |
| Desire (たい) | 引っ込みたい ひっこみたい | hikkomitai |