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ひくつ · hikutsu

servile, obsequious

JLPT N1 na-adjective

Conjugation table

Form Japanese Reading
dictionary 卑屈 ひくつ
past 卑屈だった ひくつだった
negative 卑屈じゃない ひくつじゃない
te-form 卑屈で ひくつで

卑屈 in a sentence

  • Hikutsu na yatsu.

    What a servile fellow.

  • Karera wa naze anna ni hikutsu ni kare ni tsukaetano ka.

    Why did they wait upon him so servilely?

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR, licensed for reuse.