やる

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

do; perform; play; study

Very common colloquial substitute for する in everyday speech, especially for activities, games, practice, and study. It can sound more casual than する.

See also: する

• 週しゅう末まつは何なにをやるの？

  What are you going to do this weekend?

• 最さい近きん、友ともだちと将しょう棋ぎをやっている。

  Recently I have been playing shogi with a friend.

• 毎まい日にち少すこしずつ英えい語ごをやる。

  I study a little English every day.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

send; dispatch

Used for sending a person, animal, or thing off somewhere. Often plainer and more conversational than 派遣する or 送る.

• 本ほん社しゃから技ぎ術じゅつ者しゃを現げん場ばにやった。

  Head office sent an engineer to the site.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

put; move; turn one's gaze

Often used with body parts or attention, as in 手をやる or 視線をやる, meaning to move or direct something toward a place.

• 彼かれはポケットに手てをやった。

  He put his hand into his pocket.

• 窓まどの外そとに視し線せんをやると、雪ゆきが降ふっていた。

  When I turned my gaze outside the window, snow was falling.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

give; let have; bestow

Plain giving to someone of equal or lower status, to animals, or to plants. With people it can sound blunt or superior, so あげる is safer in polite contexts.

• 犬いぬにえさをやる。

  I feed the dog.

• 弟おとうとに古ふるい自じ転てん車しゃをやった。

  I gave my younger brother my old bicycle.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

make a vehicle go faster; drive onward

Limited and old-fashioned or rough-sounding use for urging a vehicle or mount onward; modern Japanese would usually use 飛ばす, 走らせる, or speed-related expressions.

• 「車くるまをもっとやれ」は、乗のり物ものを速はやく進すすませる意い味みの古ふるい言いい方かたとして扱あつかわれる。

  車をもっとやれ is treated as an old expression meaning to make a vehicle go faster.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

run a business; be engaged in; practice a profession

Common with shops, businesses, jobs, hobbies, and professions: 店をやる, 医者をやる, バンドをやる.

• 父ちちは駅えき前まえで小ちいさな店みせをやっている。

  My father runs a small shop in front of the station.

• 彼かの女じょは十じゅう年ねんほど弁べん護ご士しをやっている。

  She has been practicing as a lawyer for about ten years.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

have a drink; eat; smoke

Casual and sometimes masculine-sounding with food, alcohol, or tobacco. 一杯やる is a fixed everyday expression meaning to have a drink.

• 仕し事ごとの後あとで一いっ杯ぱいやろう。

  Let's have a drink after work.

• 彼かれはタバコをやらない。

  He doesn't smoke.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

hold a performance; perform; show

Used for staging or putting on a show, concert, play, movie, or similar event. The kanji 演る may be used for this meaning, but やる is the usual kana form.

See also: 演る

• 来らい月げつ、駅えき前まえのホールでライブをやる。

  They are holding a live show at the hall in front of the station next month.

• あの劇げき場じょうでは毎まい晩ばん芝しば居いをやっている。

  That theater puts on a play every night.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

ease one's mind; divert oneself

Rare, literary use seen especially in expressions like 心をやる, meaning to comfort, divert, or let one's mind be at ease.

• 「心こころをやる」は、気き晴ばらしをして心こころを慰なぐさめるという古こ風ふうな言いい方かただ。

  心をやる is an old-fashioned expression meaning to comfort or divert one's mind.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

harm; injure; kill

Colloquial and rough; often implies beating, taking down, or killing someone. The related spelling 殺る makes the violent sense explicit.

See also: 殺る

• 映えい画がでは、主しゅ人じん公こうが最さい後ごに敵てきをやる。

  In the movie, the hero takes down the enemy at the end.

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

have sex; fuck; bang

Vulgar sexual slang. Often written ヤる to signal this meaning and avoid ambiguity with ordinary やる.

• あいつ、昨日きのうあの子ことヤったらしい。

  I hear that guy had sex with her yesterday.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

live; get by; get along

Intransitive use meaning to manage one's life or situation somehow. Very common in forms such as やっている and やっていく.

See also: やっていく · やってくる

• 今いまの給きゅう料りょうだけでやっていくのは大たい変へんだ。

  It is hard to get by on my current salary alone.

• 彼かれは新あたらしい職しょく場ばでもうまくやっている。

  He is getting along well at his new workplace.

suffix, godan verb (-ru)

do completely; finish doing

Suffix after the masu-stem of a verb, often in negative or literary forms such as 明けやらぬ or 消えやらぬ, meaning that something has not fully completed.

• 明あけやらぬ空そらに星ほしがまだ残のこっていた。

  Stars still remained in the sky before dawn had fully broken.

• 消きえやらぬ不ふ安あんが胸むねに残のこった。

  A lingering unease that had not completely disappeared remained in my heart.

suffix, godan verb (-ru)

do broadly; do toward a distance

Suffix after the masu-stem of a verb, especially in literary-looking compounds such as 見やる or 眺めやる, describing looking or extending an action outward or far away.

• 彼かれは丘おかの上うえから遠とおくの海うみを眺ながめやった。

  He gazed out at the distant sea from the hill.

auxiliary verb, godan verb (-ru)

do for someone; do to someone

Auxiliary after the te-form. It can mean doing something for someone of equal or lower status, or doing something to someone with a rough, sometimes hostile or defiant tone.

• 弟おとうとの宿しゅく題だいを手伝てつだってやった。

  I helped my younger brother with his homework.

• いつか見み返かえしてやる。

  Someday I'll show them.

auxiliary verb, godan verb (-ru)

make an effort to; be determined to

Auxiliary after the te-form expressing strong personal resolve or active effort: 'I'll make sure I do it.' Casual and forceful.

• 今こん度どこそ一人ひとりで完かん成せいさせてやる。

  This time I'll make sure to finish it by myself.

• 絶ぜっ対たいに合ごう格かくしてやる。

  I am determined to pass.