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
- to end; to come to an end; to finish; to close; to be over · godan verb, intransitive
- to finish; to complete; to conclude · godan verb, transitive
- to finish doing · suffix, godan verb · after the -masu stem of a verb
- to be past its (one's) prime · godan verb, intransitive · colloquial · as 終わって(い)る or 終わった
- to be awful; to be terrible; to suck; to be hopeless · godan verb, intransitive · colloquial · as 終わって(い)る
Example sentences
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.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
終わりおわりend最終さいしゅうlast終えるおえるto finish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 1589600 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.