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First opened Monday, December 18, 2006

する

する

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

to do, to try; to wear small items (e.g., necktie, watch, etc.)

JLPT N5Commonsuru verb - included和語 · Native Japanese

Suru is from the Old Japanese verb す (su, “to do”), from Proto-Japonic *su, and cognate with Okinawan sun.

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “From Old Japanese verb す (su, “to do”), from Proto-Japonic *su. Cognate with Okinawan すん (sun).”
  • “As with all verbs, during the Middle Japanese stage in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, the 終止形 (shūshikei, “terminal or sentence-ending form”) was gradually lost as the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) came to be used for both the attributive and terminal grammatical roles, realigning the conjugations.”

Source: Wiktionary: する (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also read する

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • するThis word

    to do, to try; to wear small items (e.g., necktie, watch, etc.)

    No pitch accent shown

  • 擦る

    to rub, to chafe

    す↓る head-high (atamadaka)

  • 刷る

    to print

    す↓る head-high (atamadaka)

  • 為る

    to do, to attempt

    する flat (heiban)

Also opened on December 18

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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