Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "減る"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
減る [hèrú]
Imperative (命令形) 減れ [hèré]
Key constructions
Passive 減られる られる [hèrárérú]
Causative 減らせる らせる [hèrásérú]
Potential - - -
Volitional 減ろう [hèróꜜò]
Negative 減らない らない [hèránáí]
Negative perfective 減らなかった らなかった [hèránáꜜkàttà]
Formal 減ります りま [hèrímáꜜsù]
Perfective 減った った [hèttá]
Conjunctive 減って って [hètté]
Hypothetical conditional 減れば [hèréꜜbà]

Verb edit

() (heruintransitive godan (stem () (heri), past ()った (hetta))

Japanese verb pair
active 減らす
mediopassive 減る
  1. To be reduced or decrease in size or quantity; to become fewer
    • 2007, 新時代日漢辭典新时代日汉辞典 (Xīn Shídài Rì-hàn Cídiǎn), 1st edition, 大新書局大新书局 (Dàxīn Shūjú), →ISBN:
      (たい)(じゅう)()キロ()った
      Taijū ga go kiro hetta
      I lost 5 kilos of bodyweight

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN