腫れる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
脹れる
瘇れる

Etymology

From Old Japanese.[1] Appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[2]

Originally from the 已然形 (izenkei, realis form) of verb 張る (haru, to become taut or tense).[1]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「腫れる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
腫れる れる
Imperative (命令形) 腫れろ れろ
Key constructions
Passive 腫れられる れられる
Causative 腫れさせる れさせる
Potential - - -
Volitional 腫れよう れよ
Negative 腫れない れない
Negative perfective 腫れなかった れなかった
Formal 腫れます れま
Perfective 腫れた れた
Conjunctive 腫れて れて
Hypothetical conditional 腫れれば れれ

Verb

()れる (hareruintransitive ichidan (stem () (hare), past ()れた (hareta))

  1. (of a body part) to swell (from inflammation)

Conjugation

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 16, poem 3856:
    , text here
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN