だるい

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
怠い
懈い

Alternative forms

  • (informal, terminal or attributive form) だりい (darī)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 「だるい」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) だるく だるく
だるく
Terminal (終止形) だるい だるい
Attributive (連体形) だるい だるい
Key constructions
Informal negative だるくない だるくない
だるくない
Informal past だるかった だるかった
だるかった
Informal negative past だるくなかった だるくなかった
だるくなかった
Formal だるいです だるいです
Conjunctive だるくて だるくて
だるくて
Conditional だるければ だるければ
だるければ

Adjective

だるい • (darui) -i (adverbial だるく (daruku))

  1. tired; listless; weary
    体(からだ)がだるい時(とき)はどうすればいい
    karada ga darui toki wa dō sureba ii
    what should I do when my body feels heavy
    (literally, “what should do when the body feels tired”)
    今日(きょう)はだりぃな
    kyō wa darī na
    what a tiring day
    (literally, “today is tiring”)
  2. unmotivated
Inflection
Inflection of だるい
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) だるかろ darukaro
Continuative (連用形) だるく daruku
Terminal (終止形) だるい darui
Attributive (連体形) だるい darui
Hypothetical (仮定形) だるけれ darukere
Imperative (命令形) だるかれ darukare
Key constructions
Informal negative だるくない daruku nai
Informal past だるかった darukatta
Informal negative past だるくなかった daruku nakatta
Formal だるいです darui desu
Formal negative だるくないです daruku nai desu
Formal past だるかったです darukatta desu
Formal negative past だるくなかったです daruku nakatta desu
Conjunctive だるくて darukute
Conditional だるければ darukereba
Provisional だるかったら darukattara
Volitional だるかろう darukarō
Adverbial だるく daruku
Degree だるさ darusa

See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of だるい – see the following entry.
【堕涙】
shedding tears
to shed tears
(This term, だるい (darui), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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