老いる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese verb 老ゆ (oyu).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "老いる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
老いる
Imperative (命令形) 老いろ
Key constructions
Passive 老いられる いられ
Causative 老いさせる いさせ
Potential - - -
Volitional 老いられよう いられよ
Negative 老いない ない
Negative perfective 老いなかった なかった
Formal 老います いま
Perfective 老いた いた
Conjunctive 老いて いて
Hypothetical conditional 老いれば れば

Verb

()いる (oiruichidan (stem () (oi), past ()いた (oita))

  1. to age, to grow old

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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