飲

音読おんよみ: イン

訓読くんよみ: のむ

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部首ぶしゅ: 食（しょくへん）

Meaning

Drink / Swallow

  • Basic forms
  • 飲む — to drink / base form
  • 飲みます — polite / I drink / masu form
  • 飲んだ — past / drank / ta form
  • 飲んで — te-form / drink (and …) / linking or request
  • 飲まない — negative / don’t drink / negative form
  • 飲めば — if (I) drink / conditional
  • 飲め — drink! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 飲みたい — want to drink / 〜たい form
  • 飲める — can drink / be able to drink / potential
  • 飲まれる — be drunk (passive) / passive
  • 飲ませる — make someone drink / causative
  • More
  • 飲もう — let’s drink / 〜よう form
  • 飲まなかった — past negative / didn’t drink
  • 飲んでいる — drinking (right now) / progressive / state

飲む (のむ) is a godan (う-verb) meaning “to drink.” In て- and た-forms, む changes to んで / んだ — for example: 飲んで, 飲んだ. Common expressions include 水を飲む (drink water) and コーヒーを飲む (drink coffee).

  • 飲食いんしょく — food and drink
  • 飲料いんりょう — beverage
  • 飲酒いんしゅ — drinking alcohol
  • 飲物のみもの — drink, beverage

飲 combines the 食 (eat) radical with 欠 (lack, open mouth). It originally depicted the act of opening one’s mouth to drink something, typically alcohol. The meaning later expanded to include all types of drinking.

水みずを飲のみます。
I drink water.

昨さく夜や、飲のみ会かいがありました。
There was a drinking party last night.

物
Creates
飲物のみもの — drink, beverage
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