泣く

Meanings

1. 1
   to cry; to shed tears; to weepu-verb (く)intransitive
2. 2
   to suffer (from); to be troubled (by); to face hardshipu-verb (く)intransitive
3. 3
   to accept (an unreasonable request, loss, etc.); to do reluctantly; to make sacrificesu-verb (く)intransitive

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Conjugation

In a sentence

泣(な)かないでdon't cry

How it works

This is a gentle “don’t” request. 泣く(なく) (cry) first goes negative to 泣かない(なかない) (don’t cry), then takes the て (te-form) ending to become 泣かないで(なかないで) (please don’t cry). The pattern [verb-negative] + で ((don’t)) is the soft way to ask someone not to do something.

Written with

• 泣cry8 strokes