終わる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
終る

Etymology

See 終える.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "終わる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
終わる わる
Imperative (命令形) 終われ われ
Key constructions
Passive 終わられる わられる
Causative 終わらせる わらせる
Potential 終われる われる
Volitional 終わろう わろ
Negative 終わらない わらない
Negative perfective 終わらなかった わらなかった
Formal 終わります わりま
Perfective 終わった わった
Conjunctive 終わって わって
Hypothetical conditional 終われば われ

Verb

()わる (owaruをはる (wofaru)?intransitive godan (stem ()わり (owari), past ()わった (owatta))

Japanese verb pair
active 終える
mediopassive 終わる
  1. to end, to finish, to quit
    会議(かいぎ)()わった
    kaigi owatta
    The meeting's finally over…!
  2. to be in a hopeless position
    ()わった。
    Owatta.
    Bro, I’m done for. / It's so over for me, bro.

Conjugation

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References

  1. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Second edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN