痩せる

Japanese
Kanji in this term
痩
や
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Verb

痩せる (intransitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana やせる, rōmaji yaseru)

  1. to lose weight
    • 1932, Motojirō Kajii, のんきな患者:
      四 (よん)五 (ご)日 (にち)経 (た)つともうすっかり痩 (や)せてしまった。
      Yon go nichi tatsu to mō sukkari yasete shimatta.
      He'd completely wasted away after only four or five days.
  2. for fertile land to become barren

Conjugation
Conjugation of "痩せる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 痩せ やせ yase
Continuative (連用形) 痩せ やせ yase
Terminal (終止形) 痩せる やせる yaseru
Attributive (連体形) 痩せる やせる yaseru
Hypothetical (仮定形) 痩せれ やせれ yasere
Imperative (命令形) 痩せよ¹
痩せろ²		 やせよ¹
やせろ²		 yaseyo¹
yasero²
Key constructions
Passive 痩せられる やせられる yaserareru
Causative 痩せさせる
痩せさす		 やせさせる
やせさす		 yasesaseru
yasesasu
Potential 痩せられる
痩せれる³		 やせられる
やせれる³		 yaserareru
yasereru³
Volitional 痩せよう やせよう yaseyō
Negative 痩せない
痩せぬ
痩せん		 やせない
やせぬ
やせん		 yasenai
yasenu
yasen
Negative continuative 痩せず やせず yasezu
Formal 痩せます やせます yasemasu
Perfective 痩せた やせた yaseta
Conjunctive 痩せて やせて yasete
Hypothetical conditional 痩せれば やせれば yasereba
¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
³ Colloquial potential

Antonyms

References
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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