訪れる

Japanese

Kanji in this term
訪
おとず
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おとずれ​る [òtózúréꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])
  • IPA(key): [o̞to̞zɨᵝɾe̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "訪れる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
訪れる おとずれ​る [òtózúréꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 訪れろ おとずれ​ろ [òtózúréꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 訪れられる おとずれられ​る [òtózúréráréꜜrù]
Causative 訪れさせる おとずれさせ​る [òtózúrésáséꜜrù]
Potential 訪れられる おとずれられ​る [òtózúréráréꜜrù]
Volitional 訪れよう おとずれよ​ー [òtózúréyóꜜò]
Negative 訪れない おとずれ​ない [òtózúréꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 訪れなかった おとずれ​なかった [òtózúréꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 訪れます おとずれま​す [òtózúrémáꜜsù]
Perfective 訪れた おとず​れた [òtózúꜜrètà]
Conjunctive 訪れて おとず​れて [òtózúꜜrètè]
Hypothetical conditional 訪れれば おとずれ​れば [òtózúréꜜrèbà]

Verb

訪(おとず)れる • (otozureru) transitive ichidan (stem 訪(おとず)れ (otozure), past 訪(おとず)れた (otozureta))

  1. visit, call on, pay somewhere a visit
    • 1988, lyrics of "Tonari no Totoro", ending song of the animated film My Neighbor Totoro:
      トトロ、子供(こども)のときにだけ、あなたに訪(おとず)れる
      Totoro, kodomo no toki ni dake, anata ni otozureru
      Totoro only visits when you are in your childhood
  2. for an occurrence to come, arrive
    • 2011, Barack Obama, 中東と北アフリカに関するバラク・オバマの演説, translation of "Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa":
      もちろんこの大変革(だいへんかく)は、容易(ようい)に訪(おとず)れた訳(わけ)ではない。
      Mochiron kono daihenkaku wa, yōi ni otozureta wake de wa nai.
      Of course, change of this magnitude does not come easily.

Usage notes

  • The subject can be either animate (e.g. a person) or inanimate (e.g. an occurrence or season).
  • The object cannot be animate, or else it should be phrased as "someone's location" or "someone's time".
  • The action can be either on purpose or arbitrary. Consequentially, the intention of the action is left ambiguous unless otherwise stated.

Conjugation

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