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堪る (たまる, tamaru) Japanese meaning: bear | Kotomora
Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 堪る · godan verb (-ru)
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 堪たま る 堪たま らない Polite 堪たま ります 堪たま りません Past polite 堪たま りました 堪たま りませんでした Past 堪たま った 堪たま らなかった Te-form 堪たま って 堪たま らないで Desire 堪たま りたい 堪たま りたくない Potential 堪たま れる 堪たま れない Passive 堪たま られる 堪たま られない Causative 堪たま らせる 堪たま らせない Causative passive 堪たま らせられる also 堪たま らされる 堪たま らせられない also 堪たま らされない Volitional 堪たま ろう Polite volitional 堪たま りましょう Imperative 堪たま れ 堪たま るな Conditional 堪たま れば 堪たま らなければ Tara conditional 堪たま ったら 堪たま らなかったら
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It's unbearably hot like this.
As if I could stand losing!
Usage patterns 〈 形けい 容よう 詞し 〉 くてたまらない unbearably [adjective]; so [adjective] one can't stand it
This bug bite is unbearably itchy.
〈 動どう 詞し 〉 たくてたまらない to want to do something so badly one can't stand it
I want to see him so badly I can hardly stand it.
〈 動どう 詞し 〉 てたまるか rhetorical: 'as if I'd let that happen!'; expresses defiant refusal to accept something
There's no way I'm going to lose to a guy like that!
Kanji 堪 withstand, endure, support Transitive / intransitive Related words 耐える is the common verb for enduring hardship or pain, while 堪る is rare and almost only appears as たまらない, meaning something is unbearable.
我慢する describes a deliberate, patient act of putting up with something, whereas 堪る (usually as たまらない) describes an involuntary feeling that something has become unbearable.
Don't confuse with 溜まる (to accumulate, pool up, as of water or stress) is pronounced identically to 堪る but has no shared meaning of enduring or being unbearable.
貯まる (for money or savings to build up) sounds the same as 堪る but refers to accumulating funds, not to enduring something.
Written forms 堪たま る Usage 6%
Kanji spelling is rare; the word is usually written in kana.
たまる Usage 94%
Standard kana spelling; the word is almost always written this way.
堪た まる Usage <1%
Alternate kanji spelling; even rarer than 堪る.
Etymology This native verb is historically associated with 溜まる “accumulate, be contained”; in the sense “endure,” it now occurs chiefly in negative and conditional expressions such as たまらない.
