滅びる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
滅
ほろ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
亡びる

Etymology

From Classical Japanese verb 滅(ほろ)ぶ (horobu).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ほろび​る [hòróbíꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • (Tokyo) ほろびる [hòróbírú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ho̞ɾo̞bʲiɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "滅びる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
滅びる ほろび​る [hòróbíꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 滅びろ ほろび​ろ [hòróbíꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 滅びられる ほろびられ​る [hòróbíráréꜜrù]
Causative 滅びさせる ほろびさせ​る [hòróbísáséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 滅びよう ほろびよ​ー [hòróbíyóꜜò]
Negative 滅びない ほろび​ない [hòróbíꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 滅びなかった ほろび​なかった [hòróbíꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 滅びます ほろびま​す [hòróbímáꜜsù]
Perfective 滅びた ほろ​びた [hòróꜜbìtà]
Conjunctive 滅びて ほろ​びて [hòróꜜbìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 滅びれば ほろび​れば [hòróbíꜜrèbà]

Verb

滅(ほろ)びる • (horobiru) intransitive ichidan (stem 滅(ほろ)び (horobi), past 滅(ほろ)びた (horobita))

Japanese verb pair
active 滅ぼす
mediopassive 滅びる
  1. to die, to fall, to collapse, to perish
    • "Laputa : Castle in the Sky", 1986
      ラピュタは滅(ほろ)びぬ、何(なん)度(ど)でも甦(よみがえ)るさ。
      Rapyuta wa horobi nu, nando demo yomigaeru sa.
      Laputa never dies, it will be reborn many times.
  2. to die out; to become extinct

Conjugation

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References

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