JLPT N1 · Verb

ぼやける (boyakeru)

ぼやける is a Japanese verb meaning “to become dim; to become blurred”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ぼやける
Romaji
boyakeru
Word class
Ichidan verb (る-verb)
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. to become dim; to become blurred · ichidan verb, intransitive

Example sentences

テレビの画像はぼやけて見えた。
The TV picture was blurred.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of ぼやける

Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionaryぼやけるぼやける boyakeru
Polite (~masu)ぼやけますぼやけます boyakemasu
Negativeぼやけないぼやけない boyakenai
Polite negativeぼやけませんぼやけません boyakemasen
Pastぼやけたぼやけた boyaketa
Polite pastぼやけましたぼやけました boyakemashita
Negative pastぼやけなかったぼやけなかった boyakenakatta
Te-formぼやけてぼやけて boyakete
Potentialぼやけられるぼやけられる boyakerareru
Passiveぼやけられるぼやけられる boyakerareru
Causativeぼやけさせるぼやけさせる boyakesaseru
Volitionalぼやけようぼやけよう boyakeyou
Imperativeぼやけろぼやけろ boyakero
Conditional (~ba)ぼやければぼやければ boyakereba

Source: JMdict entry 1011860 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.