My cat is snoring!


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?




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。




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.

