JLPT N5 · Verb

終る (owaru)

終る (おわる, owaru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to end; to come to an end”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
おわる
Romaji
owaru
Word class
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. to end; to come to an end; to finish; to close; to be over · godan verb, intransitive
  2. to finish; to complete; to conclude · godan verb, transitive
  3. to finish doing · suffix, godan verb · after the -masu stem of a verb
  4. to be past its (one's) prime · godan verb, intransitive · colloquial · as 終わって(い)る or 終わった
  5. to be awful; to be terrible; to suck; to be hopeless · godan verb, intransitive · colloquial · as 終わって(い)る

Example sentences

野球の試合は引き分けに終わった。
The baseball game ended in a draw.
彼は彼らの激論を終わらせようとしたが無駄だった。
He tried in vain to put an end to their heated discussion.
彼は食べ終わるとすぐに、再び歩き始めた。
As soon as he finished eating, he began to walk again.

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

Conjugation of 終る

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

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionary終るおわる owaru
Polite (~masu)終りますおわります owarimasu
Negative終らないおわらない owaranai
Polite negative終りませんおわりません owarimasen
Past終ったおわった owatta
Polite past終りましたおわりました owarimashita
Negative past終らなかったおわらなかった owaranakatta
Te-form終っておわって owatte
Potential終れるおわれる owareru
Passive終られるおわられる owarareru
Causative終らせるおわらせる owaraseru
Volitional終ろうおわろう owarou
Imperative終れおわれ oware
Conditional (~ba)終ればおわれば owareba

Kanji in 終る

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 終る.

Source: JMdict entry 1589600 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.