去る · godan verb (-ru)
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 去る | 去らない |
| Polite | 去ります | 去りません |
| Past polite | 去りました | 去りませんでした |
| Past | 去った | 去らなかった |
| Te-form | 去って | 去らないで |
| Desire | 去りたい | 去りたくない |
| Potential | 去れる | 去れない |
| Passive | 去られる | 去られない |
| Causative | 去らせる | 去らせない |
| Causative passive | 去らせられるalso 去らされる | 去らせられないalso 去らされない |
| Volitional | 去ろう | |
| Polite volitional | 去りましょう | |
| Imperative | 去れ | 去るな |
| Conditional | 去れば | 去らなければ |
| Tara conditional | 去ったら | 去らなかったら |
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
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.
彼は何も言わずにその場を去った。
He left the scene without saying anything.
After the audience went away, the venue became quiet.
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
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.
The enjoyable time passed in an instant.
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 ...'.
Ten years ago, the two met in this town.
godan verb (-ru), transitive verb
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'.
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.
He was trying to forget the painful memories completely.
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)
This past April, an international conference was held in Kyoto.
He quietly left the room.
The long winter finally passed.
The new branch opened this past April.
In the past, it was accepted for a man to divorce his wife.
去る is a neutral, formal verb for leaving a place, while 引き取る in this sense implies leaving because someone asked you to or to avoid trouble.
去る is a general verb for leaving any place, while 辞す specifically implies formally taking one's leave from a host or gathering.
去る means to leave or depart, the opposite of 止まる（とどまる）'s sense of staying in a place.
去る means to leave or depart, the opposite of やって来る's sense of arriving or showing up.
run away; run off
abandon; throw away; discard; forsake
abduction; kidnapping
remove; eliminate; take away
pass; pass by; go by
take away; carry off; abduct; kidnap
take away; carry off; make off with
forget completely; leave behind
erase completely; get rid of; wipe out; dispel
moment of departure; upon leaving; retirement
cut off; sever; amputate
leave; go away; depart
disappear; vanish; be gone
take away; carry off
crumble away; collapse
withdraw; pull back; retreat; deduct
pass; overtake; leave behind · pull out; extract; remove
wipe away; rub out; erase