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I want to say "My cat is snoring!" I found the verb to snore is 「いびき」and
Jisho.org says it's a ["godan verb with ku
ending"](http://jisho.org/word/%E9%BC%BE%E3%82%92%E3%81%8B%E3%81%8F). I
haven't learned what that means, so I tried the -ku conjugations from
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_verb_conjugation#Summary_of_verb_conjugations),
but nothing lead to "is snoring," at least according to Google Translate. The
closest I got was 「うちの猫はいびきいた」, "my cat was snoring."

What am I missing?
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verbs conjugations
My cat is snoring!
The entry mentions 「鼾｛いびき｝をかく」. The verb you need to conjugate is かく. いびき
itself is a noun.

> My cat is snoring!  
>  = うちの猫が*いびきを **かいている** ！  
>  *Use が, not は.

To sound casual and colloquial, you could say:

> うちの猫、いびきかいてる！

leaving out the particles が and を.
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According to the dictionary, いびき is a noun:  
いびき【鼾】snoring  
<http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/je/4267/meaning/m0u/%E9%BC%BE/>

There is no such a verb as いびく.  
In order to make it into a verb, you have to say 鼾をかく.  
<http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/edc/16000261601/meaning/m0u/%E9%BC%BE%E3%82%92%E3%81%8B%E3%81%8F/>

So it becomes  
うちの猫はいびきをかいている。
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The verb _ibiku_ used to be a regularly conjugating verb that had the same
pattern as 引{ひ}く, apparently derived as a compound of 息{い} (more commonly
_iki_ ) + 引{ひ}く. My big copy of Shogakukan's 国語{こくご}大{だい}辞典{じてん} lists this as
a 四段{よだん}活用{かつよう}動詞{どうし}, the predecessor to modern 五段{ごだん}活用{かつよう}動詞{どうし}.
This generally refers to verbs that fell out of common use before the modern
era. In this case, _ibiku_ is not used any more, but the stem and noun form
_ibiki_ persists. As other posters have noted, this noun requires the verb
_kaku_ (roughly, "to scratch out [a snore]"), or (less commonly) _tateru_ ("to
put up [a snore]"). In a pinch, you could say _ibiki o suru_ and people would
understand what you mean.
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