Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
なら
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
竝べる (kyūjitai)
双べる

Etymology edit

The regular 下一段活用 (shimo ichidan katsuyō, lower monograde conjugation) shift of Old Japanese and Classical Japanese verb 並ぶ (narabu, to line up (intransitive); to line something up (transitive)).[1][2]

The root verb narabu appears in Old Japanese, at least as early as the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.[1][2]

Probably reflecting the same nara root as verb 均す・平す (narasu, to flatten something out, to line something up horizontally) + (bu, suffix attaching to nouns and adjectives to indicate ongoing state or likeness). If so, probably deriving ultimately from verb 成る・為る・生る (naru, to come into being; to become), 慣る・馴る・狎る・熟る (naru, to become normal, to become regular, to become fitting, classical form of modern なれる (nareru)).

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "並べる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
並べる らべる [nàrábérú]
Imperative (命令形) 並べろ らべろ [nàrábéró]
Key constructions
Passive 並べられる らべられる [nàrábérárérú]
Causative 並べさせる らべさせる [nàrábésásérú]
Potential 並べられる らべられる [nàrábérárérú]
Volitional 並べよう らべよ [nàrábéyóꜜò]
Negative 並べない らべない [nàrábénáí]
Negative perfective 並べなかった らべなかった [nàrábénáꜜkàttà]
Formal 並べます らべま [nàrábémáꜜsù]
Perfective 並べた らべた [nàrábétá]
Conjunctive 並べて らべて [nàrábété]
Hypothetical conditional 並べれば らべれ [nàrábéréꜜbà]

Verb edit

(なら)べる (naraberutransitive ichidan (stem (なら) (narabe), past (なら)べた (narabeta))

Japanese verb pair
active (なら)べる ((なら)べる)
mediopassive (なら) ((なら))
  1. to line something up
  2. to arrange things, to set up

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN