変わる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
變わる (kyūjitai)
変る

Pronunciation

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

Verb

()わる (kawaruかはる (kafaru)?intransitive godan (stem ()わり (kawari), past ()わった (kawatta))

Japanese verb pair
active 変える
mediopassive 変わる
  1. to change; to become different; to turn into; to become (something else)
    • 1988 July 30 [1985 July 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “()()からのおとし(だま) [An Outta-the-Ballue Falltune]”, in 宇宙船製造法 [How to Build a Spaceship] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 3), 6th edition, volume 3 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 10:
      かわったなあ、ミッちゃんも…………。()をつないで(がっ)(こう)へかよったころもあったのに……。なにもかもかわっていくような()がする。お(しょう)(がつ)さえも。たのしいことがいっぱいあったような()がするなあ。すごろく、トランプ、たこあげ、お(とし)(だま)…。
      Kawatta nā, Mitchan mo…………. Te o tsunaide gakkō e kayotta koro mo atta no ni……. Nani mo ka mo kawatte iku yō na ki ga suru. O-shōgatsu sae mo. Tanoshii koto ga ippai atta yō na ki ga suru nā. Sugoroku, toranpu, takoage, o-toshidama….
      Mitchan’s changed…. To think we used to go to school and back home, hand in hand…. I feel like everything’s gonna change. Even New Year itself. There used to be a lot fun things to do. Playing sugoroku or cards, flying kites, getting gift money….

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN