どうにかしよう & verb for 憂 (not in dict)

Hello everyone

These are the two words that have me confused for quite a while and I haven't sought help until now.

1. (誰か)にどうにかしよう。 (just an example) - does this mean, 'do something about someone?' The context is that person A was talking behind person B's back about person B's personal flaws.... BUT.. PERSON Bにどうにかしよう。。 (actually I also forgot the proper grammar as well so I can't remember how to say the exact passage... I hope you get my meaning though.

2. The verb for the kanji, 憂. I have seen this used, 憂いている. I know what this kanji means, but I don't know what the hiragana is. I know this word also has the verb form, 'うれえる' but since the sentence is 憂いている、 that mustn't be the form. I can't remember the sentence but that is definetely what was in print. It's not showing up on any dictionary though.

And while I'm at it... is there such a combo as 憂する？

Alright. Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'd like to know what they are!

Thanks all.

憂ふ is a verb pronounced うれう, but made modern, the verb would be うれいる. The -て form of this would be うれいて.

Thanks, Jimmy. I suppose it is a fairly 'old' word.

lamshopping said:

Hello everyone
1. (誰か)にどうにかしよう。 (just an example) - does this mean, 'do something about someone?' The context is that person A was talking behind person B's back about person B's personal flaws.... BUT.. PERSON Bにどうにかしよう。。 (actually I also forgot the proper grammar as well so I can't remember how to say the exact passage... I hope you get my meaning though.

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～にどうにかしよう does not sound correct to me, though I cannot tell whether it really is ungrammatical or not without the whole context.
If you want to say "do something about someone", then it should be
～をどうにかしよう.

lamshopping;416629 said:

2. The verb for the kanji, 憂. I have seen this used, 憂いている. I know what this kanji means, but I don't know what the hiragana is. I know this word also has the verb form, 'うれえる' but since the sentence is 憂いている、 that mustn't be the form. I can't remember the sentence but that is definitely what was in print. It's not showing up on any dictionary though.
And while I'm at it... is there such a combo as 憂する？

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There does not exist a verb 憂する.
憂える is the correct verb for a noun 憂い.
I'm not 100% sure but to me 憂いている（憂いる） is an error one guessed from 憂い incorrectly.

In the 広辞苑 entry for 憂ふ（憂う） （上二段活用）, you will find this example sentence:
ある人・・・蝉を殺さんとす。蝉憂いていはく
so at some point in history, the -て form of 憂う was うれいて, but nowadays うれえて would be the norm.

JimmySeal said:

In the 広辞苑 entry for 憂ふ（憂う） （上二段活用）, you will find this example sentence:
ある人・・・蝉を殺さんとす。蝉憂いていはく
so at some point in history, the -て form of 憂う was うれいて, but nowadays うれえて would be the norm.

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Oh, I don't mean the old grammar/usage （憂ひて）, I only meant that if the original sentence was something found in the recent text, it is likely to be a sample error.
Anyway, thank you for clarification and detailed examples.