I Love Kanji終える (oeru)
終える (おえる, oeru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to finish; to get through with”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- おえる
- Romaji
- oeru
- Word class
- Ichidan verb (る-verb)
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to finish; to get through with; to complete; to bring (something) to an end · ichidan verb, transitive
- to graduate · ichidan verb, transitive · occ. written 卒える
- to come to an end; to end · ichidan verb, intransitive · rare
- to finish doing ...; to be done doing ... · auxiliary verb, ichidan verb · after the -masu stem of a verb
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 終える
Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 終える | おえる oeru |
| Polite (~masu) | 終えます | おえます oemasu |
| Negative | 終えない | おえない oenai |
| Polite negative | 終えません | おえません oemasen |
| Past | 終えた | おえた oeta |
| Polite past | 終えました | おえました oemashita |
| Negative past | 終えなかった | おえなかった oenakatta |
| Te-form | 終えて | おえて oete |
| Potential | 終えられる | おえられる oerareru |
| Passive | 終えられる | おえられる oerareru |
| Causative | 終えさせる | おえさせる oesaseru |
| Volitional | 終えよう | おえよう oeyou |
| Imperative | 終えろ | おえろ oero |
| Conditional (~ba) | 終えれば | おえれば oereba |
Kanji in 終える
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 終える.
終るおわるto end終わりおわりend最終さいしゅうlast始終しじゅうcontinuously終点しゅうてんterminus終了しゅうりょうend終始しゅうしbeginning and end終日しゅうじつall day
Source: JMdict entry 1332760 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.