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隔たる · godan verb (-ru)

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	隔へだたる	隔へだたらない
Polite	隔へだたります	隔へだたりません
Past polite	隔へだたりました	隔へだたりませんでした
Past	隔へだたった	隔へだたらなかった
Te-form	隔へだたって	隔へだたらないで
Desire	隔へだたりたい	隔へだたりたくない
Potential	隔へだたれる	隔へだたれない
Passive	隔へだたられる	隔へだたられない
Causative	隔へだたらせる	隔へだたらせない
Causative passive	隔へだたらせられるalso 隔へだたらされる	隔へだたらせられないalso 隔へだたらされない
Volitional	隔へだたろう
Polite volitional	隔へだたりましょう
Imperative	隔へだたれ	隔へだたるな
Conditional	隔へだたれば	隔へだたらなければ
Tara conditional	隔へだたったら	隔へだたらなかったら

Pairs with隔てる

Meanings

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be distant; be far apart; be separated

Describes physical or metaphorical distance between two points, people, or things. Often used with expressions of time, space, or emotional gap.

駅えきから家いえまではかなり隔へだたっている。
The station is quite far from my house.
二人ふたりの意い見けんは大おおきく隔へだたっている。
Their opinions are widely apart.

Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉から〈数かず〉隔へだたるto be a certain distance from a place
この島しまは本ほん土どから遠とおく隔へだたっている。
This island is far removed from the mainland.
〈事こと〉が隔へだたるfor opinions or feelings to diverge widely
二人ふたりの意い見けんは大おおきく隔へだたっていた。
Their opinions were far apart.
〈時とき〉隔へだたるto be separated by a period of time
二ふたつの事じ件けんは十じゅう年ねん隔へだたっている。
The two incidents occurred ten years apart.

Expressions

六ろく次じの隔へだたりsix degrees of separation

Kanji

隔isolate, alternate, distance
距long-distance, spur, fetlock

Transitive / intransitive

隔へだてるN2
隔てる is the transitive verb meaning to separate or put something between two things, while 隔たる is the intransitive state of being separated.

Related words

離はなれるN3
離れる is the common word for physical separation or leaving a place, while 隔たる focuses on the resulting gap or distance, often with a nuance of estrangement.
遠とおざかるN1
遠ざかる describes the process of moving further away, whereas 隔たる describes the static state of being separated by a distance.
かけ離はなれる
隔たる is a literary word for being separated by a gap (physical or temporal), close in meaning to かけ離れる but less emphatic about the size of the gap.

Opposites

近ちかづくN3
近づく means to approach or draw near, the opposite of 隔たる, which means to be distant or separated.

Word family

隔へだたり
distance; gap; difference; estrangement
懸かけ隔へだたる
be far apart; be remote; be quite different

Written forms

隔へだたるUsage49%
Standard kanji spelling for physical and figurative distance.
へだたるUsage47%
距へだたるUsage4%
Rare variant using 距; mainly seen in older texts.

Etymology

From the verb 隔てる (へだてる, 'to separate') with an intransitive suffix, indicating a state of being apart. The kanji 隔 carries the meaning of 'interval' or 'separation'.