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飽きる (あきる, akiru) Japanese meaning: get tired of | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N3 › Freq. Frequency Top 5,000 Conjugation 飽きる · ichidan verb
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 飽あ きる 飽あ きない Polite 飽あ きます 飽あ きません Past polite 飽あ きました 飽あ きませんでした Past 飽あ きた 飽あ きなかった Te-form 飽あ きて 飽あ きないで Desire 飽あ きたい 飽あ きたくない Potential 飽あ きられる also 飽あ きれる 飽あ きられない also 飽あ きれない Passive 飽あ きられる 飽あ きられない Causative 飽あ きさせる 飽あ きさせない Causative passive 飽あ きさせられる 飽あ きさせられない Volitional 飽あ きよう Polite volitional 飽あ きましょう Imperative 飽あ きろ 飽あ きるな Conditional 飽あ きれば 飽あ きなければ Tara conditional 飽あ きたら 飽あ きなかったら
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毎まい
日にち
同おな
じ
お
弁べん
当とう
に
飽あ
き
て
しまっ
た
。
I've gotten tired of the same lunch every day.
He quickly loses interest in new toys.
I'm already bored with this game.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 に 飽あ きる to get tired of / lose interest in something
I got tired of eating the same food every day.
飽あ きることなく 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something without ever getting tired of it
He kept practicing the same piece without ever tiring of it.
〈 物もの 〉 に 飽あ きる to become sated with (food or drink)
I ate the feast until I was completely full.
Expressions 飽あ きが 来く る get tired of; lose interest in; grow bored 飽あ きもせず untiringly; persistently; without getting bored 飽あ き 足た らない unfulfilled; unsatisfied; leaving something to be desired 飽あ き 足た りない unsatisfactory; unsatisfying; not enough 美び 人じん は 三みっ 日か で 飽あ きる beauty is only skin-deep; one gets tired of a beauty in three days Kanji 倦 lose interest in, tire of 厭 get tired of, satiate, bore Related words うんざりする conveys strong annoyance or disgust at something repetitive, while 飽きる is a more neutral term for simply losing interest.
退屈する describes general boredom from lack of stimulation, whereas 飽きる specifically means growing tired of one particular thing or activity.
食傷する is a more literary word for being sick of something (originally food), close to the satiation sense of 飽きる but rarer in everyday speech.
飽きる means to get bored or lose interest, whereas くたびれる as an auxiliary stresses weariness or fed-up-ness from repeating an effortful action.
Don't confuse with 諦める (give up on a goal) and 飽きる (get tired of/bored with something) sound similar and share the root あき-, but they describe different feelings.
飽和 (saturation, a state of being full) shares the kanji 飽 with 飽きる (to get bored or tired of something), but the two describe unrelated concepts.
Word family· 10 fickle nature; flighty temperament; inconstant person
boredom; weariness; tiresomeness
easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle
get tired of seeing; get tired of looking at
Written forms 飽あ きる Usage 90%
Standard kanji spelling; high frequency and priority.
あきる Usage 9%
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the nuance of the kanji is not needed.
倦あ きる Usage 1%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
厭あ きる Usage 1%
Etymology Derived from the classical verb 飽く (aku), meaning 'to be satisfied' or 'to have enough'. The modern form 飽きる developed as an intransitive verb expressing the state of having had enough, leading to the sense of weariness or boredom.
to be fully satisfied; to be fulfilled
Show 5 more getting tired of; getting sick of; getting bored with; getting fed up with
be tired of hearing; be sick of hearing
get tired of eating; have had enough of a food
easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle
to be satisfied; to be content
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
