I Love Kanji溺れる (oboreru)
溺れる (おぼれる, oboreru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to struggle in the water; to be drowning”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- おぼれる
- Romaji
- oboreru
- Word class
- Ichidan verb (る-verb)
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to struggle in the water; to be drowning; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe · ichidan verb, intransitive
- to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted; to wallow in · ichidan verb, intransitive
Example sentences
あなたが助けてくれなかったら私はおぼれていたことでしょう。
If it had not been for your help, I should have drowned.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 溺れる
Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 溺れる | おぼれる oboreru |
| Polite (~masu) | 溺れます | おぼれます oboremasu |
| Negative | 溺れない | おぼれない oborenai |
| Polite negative | 溺れません | おぼれません oboremasen |
| Past | 溺れた | おぼれた oboreta |
| Polite past | 溺れました | おぼれました oboremashita |
| Negative past | 溺れなかった | おぼれなかった oborenakatta |
| Te-form | 溺れて | おぼれて oborete |
| Potential | 溺れられる | おぼれられる oborerareru |
| Passive | 溺れられる | おぼれられる oborerareru |
| Causative | 溺れさせる | おぼれさせる oboresaseru |
| Volitional | 溺れよう | おぼれよう oboreyou |
| Imperative | 溺れろ | おぼれろ oborero |
| Conditional (~ba) | 溺れれば | おぼれれば oborereba |
Kanji in 溺れる
Source: JMdict entry 1437560 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.