去さる

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

leave; go away; depart

Intransitive verb for a person, animal, group, or situation moving away from a place. The place left can be marked with を, as in その場を去る.

• 彼かれは何なにも言いわずにその場ばを去さった。

  He left the scene without saying anything.

• 観かん客きゃくが去さった後あと、会かい場じょうは静しずかになった。

  After the audience went away, the venue became quiet.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

pass; elapse; go by

Used when time, a season, or a period passes and is no longer present. Compared with 過ぎる or 経つ, this can sound slightly more written or reflective.

• 楽たのしい時じ間かんはあっという間まに去さってしまった。

  The enjoyable time passed in an instant.

• 夏なつが去さり、朝あさ晩ばんは少すこし涼すずしくなった。

  Summer has passed, and the mornings and evenings have become a little cooler.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be distant; be removed from

Limited written or literary use, especially in the fixed pattern 今を去ること + time, meaning 'so many years/months ago' or literally 'removed from now by ...'.

• 今いまを去さること十じゅう年ねん、二人ふたりはこの町まちで出で会あった。

  Ten years ago, the two met in this town.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

send away; drive off; divorce

Old or literary transitive use. In modern speech, 追い払う is normally used for 'drive off', and 離縁する or 離婚する for 'divorce'.

• 古ふるい表ひょう現げんでは、「妻つまを去さる」は妻つまと離り縁えんすることを意い味みする。

  In older usage, 妻を去る means to divorce one's wife.

auxiliary verb, godan verb (-ru)

do completely; do away with completely

Auxiliary use after a masu-stem, forming compounds such as 忘れ去る and 消し去る. It adds the sense that the action is carried out completely, often removing something from memory, sight, or existence.

• 彼かれはつらい記き憶おくを忘わすれ去さろうとしていた。

  He was trying to forget the painful memories completely.

• 雨あめが足あし跡あとを消けし去さった。

  The rain completely erased the footprints.

pre-noun adjectival

last ...; this past ...

Only when written 去る

Pre-noun use before a date, month, year, or event, as in 去る四月. It is formal and common in announcements, reports, and news-style writing.

Antonyms: 来たる (きたる)

• 去さる四し月がつ、京きょう都とで国こく際さい会かい議ぎが開ひらかれた。

  This past April, an international conference was held in Kyoto.