破れる

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
やぶ
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
敗れる
壊れる

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぶれ [yàbúréꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠bɯ̟ɾe̞ɾɯ̟]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「破れる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
破れる ぶれ [yàbúréꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 破れろ ぶれ [yàbúréꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 破れられる ぶれられ [yàbúréráréꜜrù]
Causative 破れさせる ぶれさせ [yàbúrésáséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 破れよう ぶれよ [yàbúréyóꜜò]
Negative 破れない ぶれない [yàbúréꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 破れなかった ぶれなかった [yàbúréꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 破れます ぶれま [yàbúrémáꜜsù]
Perfective 破れた れた [yàbúꜜrètà]
Conjunctive 破れて れて [yàbúꜜrètè]
Hypothetical conditional 破れれば ぶれれば [yàbúréꜜrèbà]

Verb

(やぶ)れる • (yabureruintransitive ichidan (stem (やぶ) (yabure), past (やぶ)れた (yabureta))

Japanese verb pair
active (やぶ)
mediopassive (やぶ)れる
  1. to be torn, to be worn out
  2. to be broken
  3. to break down, to be broken off
  4. 敗れる: to lose, to be defeated
    (たたか)(やぶ)れた
    Tatakai ni yabureta.
    I lost in a fight.
  5. to be wounded, to be frustrated
Usage notes

(やぶ)れる (yabureru) is more common than (やぶ)れる (yabureru) for “to be defeated”.

Conjugation
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 破れる – see the following entry.
れる
[verb] to be broken, to break itself
[verb] to be divided; to crack; to be split
[verb] to be able to be divided; to be divisible
[verb] (colloquial) to be revealed; to be identified
Alternative spelling
割る
(This term, 破れる, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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