連れ去る・連去る|つれさるtsuresaru[3]nakadaka (mid-high)
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Which spelling to use
連れ去る連れ去る is the more common written form and the one beginners should use by default; it combines kanji with kana.
連去る連去る is a less common kanji-kana variant of 連れ去る; learners will generally encounter 連れ去る more often and should not choose this form by default.
Definitions
- godan verb, transitive verbto take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 連れ去る（つれさる） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 連れ去ります（つれさります） |
| Negative (nai) | 連れ去らない（つれさらない） |
| polite (masen) | 連れ去りません（つれさりません） |
| classical zu / nu | 連れ去らず・連れ去らぬ（つれさらず・つれさらぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 連れ去った（つれさった） |
| polite (mashita) | 連れ去りました（つれさりました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 連れ去らなかった（つれさらなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 連れ去りませんでした（つれさりませんでした） |
| Te form | 連れ去って（つれさって） |
| Potential | 連れ去れる（つれされる） |
| Passive | 連れ去られる（つれさられる） |
| Causative | 連れ去らせる（つれさらせる） |
| Causative passive | 連れ去らせられる・連れ去らされる（つれさらせられる・つれさらされる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 連れ去れば（つれされば） |
| tara | 連れ去ったら（つれさったら） |
| Volitional | 連れ去ろう（つれさろう） |
| polite (mashou) | 連れ去りましょう（つれさりましょう） |
| Imperative | 連れ去れ（つれされ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- SynonymさらうNeutralSnatches things or people when the chance arises; also waves sweeping things away or monopolizing popularity. 「連れ去る」 takes living beings away, never things or popularity.
- SynonymひっさらうCasualColloquial. An intensified form of 「攫う」 with a rough tone: grabbing someone in one go or hauling them off by force. It stresses brute force more than 「連れ去る」.
- SynonymかっさらうCasualColloquial: swiftly snatching things when an opening appears, or scooping up sand or soil. 「連れ去る」 takes a person as its object and is not used for grabbing things.
- SynonymかどわかすWrittenWritten and old-fashioned: carrying a person off by force or trickery; common in period dramas and old novels. Today 「誘拐する」 is the usual word.
- SynonymかどわすWrittenArchaic: forcibly carrying a person off, close in sense to 「拐かす」; almost never used today. Say 「誘拐」 in everyday speech.
- Synonym拐引かいいんWrittenRare noun for taking a person away by deception, stressing the trickery used. 「連れ去る」 says nothing about the means; in daily use say 「誘拐」.
- Related持ち去るもちさるNeutralTakes an object away, as in 「現金を持ち去る」; 「連れ去る」 takes a person or an animal as its object.
- Related拉致らちNeutralForcibly carrying a person off, with criminal overtones, as in 「拉致事件」; it also has an older sense of recruiting talent. More clearly a kidnapping than 「連れ去る」.
- Related誘拐ゆうかいNeutralCriminal term for illegally taking a person away and hiding them; in its narrow legal sense, by deception or seduction. More clearly a crime than 「連れ去る」.
- Related略取りゃくしゅFormalFormal legal term: abducting someone by violence or threats, also plundering property, as in 「略取誘拐罪」. In everyday speech say 「連れ去る」.
- Related奪い去るうばいさるNeutralSeizes something by force and departs; the object can be a thing, a life, or hope, and the stress is on the seizing. 「連れ去る」 is about taking a person away.
- Related運び去るはこびさるNeutralCarries a thing or person away, as in 「負傷者を運び去る」, stressing the lifting and transporting. 「連れ去る」 is leading a person off.
Use 「連れ去る」 for taking a person away against their will. For the crime of kidnapping, say 「誘拐」 or 「拉致」; colloquially, 「さらう」. To take things away, use 「持ち去る」. Most of the rest are old-fashioned, legal or rough-toned words for abducting or seizing, while 「運び去る」 simply means carrying something or someone off.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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