Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
つぶ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "潰れる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
潰れる ぶれる [tsùbúrérú]
Imperative (命令形) 潰れろ ぶれろ [tsùbúréró]
Key constructions
Passive 潰れられる ぶれられる [tsùbúrérárérú]
Causative 潰れさせる ぶれさせる [tsùbúrésásérú]
Potential - - -
Volitional 潰れよう ぶれよ [tsùbúréyóꜜò]
Negative 潰れない ぶれない [tsùbúrénáí]
Negative perfective 潰れなかった ぶれなかった [tsùbúrénáꜜkàttà]
Formal 潰れます ぶれま [tsùbúrémáꜜsù]
Perfective 潰れた ぶれた [tsùbúrétá]
Conjunctive 潰れて ぶれて [tsùbúrété]
Hypothetical conditional 潰れれば ぶれれ [tsùbúréréꜜbà]

Verb edit

(つぶ)れる (tsubureruintransitive ichidan (stem (つぶ) (tsubure), past (つぶ)れた (tsubureta))

Japanese verb pair
active 潰す
mediopassive 潰れる
  1. to be ruined, crushed, smashed, destroyed, wrecked
    ()(しん)(いえ)(いえ)(つぶ)れた
    Jishin de ieie ga tsubureta.
    Many houses were destroyed by an earthquake.
  2. to be ruined, to go bankrupt, to go under
    (だい)(がく)(つぶ)れた
    Daigaku ga tsubureta.
    A university went bankrupt.
  3. (of a blade) to become dull
  4. to be smashed; to be wasted (drunk)

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References edit

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