ラン
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Japanese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
- run (act or instance of running)
- (computing) run (execution of a program)
- Synonym: 実行 (jikkō)
- (baseball, in compounds) run (score in baseball)
Derived terms
Compounds and borrowings containing ラン
- アーンドラン (āndo ran, “earned run”)
- ウィニングラン (winingu ran, “winning run (in baseball); victory lap”)
- エンドラン (endo ran, “end run”)
- オーバーラン (ōbāran, “overrunning (the base)”)
- 帰宅ラン (kitaku ran, “after-work running”)
- さよならホームラン (walk-off home run)
- スピードラン (supīdoran, “speedrun”)
- スリーラン (surī ran, “three-run homer”)
- セカンドラン (sekando ran, “second run, rerun (of a movie)”)
- 早朝ラン (sōchō ran, “morning running”)
- 通勤ラン (tsūkin ran, “run commuting”)
- テストラン (tesuto ran, “test run”)
- ノーヒットノーラン (nō hitto nō ran, “no-hit, no-run game”)
- ノーラン (nō ran, “no-hitter; no-run stockings”)
- ノンラン (nonran, “no-run stockings”)
- バントエンドラン (banto endo ran, “bunt and run”)
- ヒットエンドラン (hitto endo ran, “hit-and-run”)
- ビクトリーラン (bikutorī ran, “victory lap”)
- ホームラン (hōmu ran, “home run”)
- ラストラン (rasuto ran, “last run”)
- ランニングホームラン (inside-the-park home run)
- ランレングス圧縮 (ran rengusu asshuku, “run-length encoding”)
- ロングラン (long run (of a movie or play))
Related terms
Verb
ランする • (ran suru) suru (stem ランし (ran shi), past ランした (ran shita))
Conjugation
Conjugation of "ランする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") | ||||
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| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | ランし | ran shi | ||
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | ランし | ran shi | ||
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | ランする | ran suru | ||
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | ランする | ran suru | ||
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | ランすれ | ran sure | ||
| Meireikei ("imperative") | ランせよ¹ ランしろ² |
ran seyo¹ ran shiro² | ||
| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | ランされる | ran sareru | ||
| Causative | ランさせる ランさす |
ran saseru ran sasu | ||
| Potential | ランできる | ran dekiru | ||
| Volitional | ランしよう | ran shiyō | ||
| Negative | ランしない | ran shinai | ||
| Negative continuative | ランせず | ran sezu | ||
| Formal | ランします | ran shimasu | ||
| Perfective | ランした | ran shita | ||
| Conjunctive | ランして | ran shite | ||
| Hypothetical conditional | ランすれば | ran sureba | ||
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative | ||||
Etymology 2
Proper noun
- Laon (a city in the Aisne department, Hauts-de-France, France)
Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of ラン – see the following entries. | ||
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| (This term, ラン (ran), is the katakana spelling of the above terms.) |