Question about a question for N+めく

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#1

A question about the 大勢の人でひし____いるこの電車は、今にもパンクしそうです。

The grammar point is N+めく, to show signs of N, have the appearance of N,

But none of the nouns I looked up for ひし seem to fit. Instead the sentence makes sense if the verb 犇く is used instead. People are milling about = 人で犇く

It seems like this sentence got linked to the grammar N+めく by mistake and needs to be reassigned to the vocabulary word for 犇く.

The only other reading I found was an uncommon one for 彼是, ひし, usually read あれこれ, which also doesn’t make sense in this context.

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#2

Hi @amberglade, thank you for reporting this! :bowing_woman:

As for ひしめく, I believe that it’s a verb instead of a combination of a noun + めく as you mentioned. I’ll confirm with the team and make the correction. I’ll let you know once I have an update!

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#3

We’ve updated the example sentences! This time, we changed example sentences where the first part (like ひし in ひしめく) doesn’t works as a noun on its own. So, besides the sentence that was reported, we also updated ones using ざわめく and 古めく for better clarity.

Like these, these’re a quite few words that came from combinations of noun, adjectives or adverbs with めく, but have become standalone verbs over time. We plan to add a Fun-fact about this kinds of word evolution in the future :smile_cat:

Thank you for letting us know about this!

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