終わる · godan verb (-ru)
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 終わる | 終わらない |
| Polite | 終わります | 終わりません |
| Past polite | 終わりました | 終わりませんでした |
| Past | 終わった | 終わらなかった |
| Te-form | 終わって | 終わらないで |
| Desire | 終わりたい | 終わりたくない |
| Potential | 終われる | 終われない |
| Passive | 終わられる | 終わられない |
| Causative | 終わらせる | 終わらせない |
| Causative passive | 終わらせられるalso 終わらされる | 終わらせられないalso 終わらされない |
| Volitional | 終わろう | |
| Polite volitional | 終わりましょう | |
| Imperative | 終われ | 終わるな |
| Conditional | 終われば | 終わらなければ |
| Tara conditional | 終わったら | 終わらなかったら |
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
Intransitive use: the event, period, work, or state itself ends. The thing that ends is usually marked with が or は.
The meeting ended at three.
Summer vacation will be over soon.
godan verb (-ru), transitive verb
Transitive use with を. It is especially natural in set closing phrases such as 発表を終わります; 終える is often the more explicitly transitive or polished alternative.
With that, I will conclude my presentation.
Suffix-like compound verb after a verb's masu-stem, as in 読み終わる, 食べ終わる, 書き終わる. It means completing that action.
Tell me what you thought after you finish reading the book.
I did my homework after I finished eating.
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
be past one's prime; be washed up
Colloquial, often harsh use in forms like 終わっている or 終わった, saying that a person, career, product, trend, etc. has lost its former value or vitality.
People said that athlete was already washed up, but the next year he won again.
godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb
be awful; be terrible; suck; be hopeless
Colloquial slang use, especially 終わってる, for something judged extremely bad, hopeless, broken, or unacceptable. It can sound blunt or rude.
This app is awful; it's full of bugs.
The meeting ended at five o'clock.
This concludes my presentation.
That athlete is finished; he's past his prime.
This design is just terrible.
The plan ended in failure.
終了する is a formal, administrative word for ending used in announcements and systems, whereas 終わる is the plain everyday verb.
終わる is intransitive 'to end by itself', while 仕舞う is transitive and implies someone deliberately brings something to a close.
終わる is the everyday neutral verb for something ending, while 休する in this sense is literary and implies the matter has reached a hopeless, final point.
終わる is the plain, general verb for something ending, while 跳ねる specifically evokes a lively event or performance breaking up and dispersing.
終わる is the common, everyday word for 'to end', while 果てる is more literary and often implies a final, exhaustive end.
終わる is a general verb for 'to end' anything, while 暮れる is used specifically for a day, season, or year drawing to a close, often with a poetic nuance.
終わる means simply 'to end,' while 引ける adds the nuance of a scheduled dismissal or closing time, often with people dispersing.
終わる simply means something comes to an end, while 閉じる specifically frames that ending as a formal 'closing,' as with a meeting or event.
end; ending; close; conclusion · end of life; death
toward the end
finish doing; complete
finish giving orders; finish commanding
end of quote; end of citation
finish writing
final part; last bit; end
finish speaking; finish saying
finish reading; read through
Rare kanji form given; mainly useful for recognition.
Rare kanji form listed for the reading おわる; not recommended for normal modern writing.
Rare kanji form given; mainly useful for recognition.
be almost finished; be about to end
end of procedure division