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腹が減る
腹が減る
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 腹 | 減 |
|
はら Grade: 6 |
へ Grade: 5 |
| kun'yomi | |
Verb
腹が減る (godan conjugation, hiragana はらがへる, romaji hara ga heru)
- (idiomatic) to get hungry
- 1905, Natsume Sōseki, 吾輩は猫である:
- 腹が非常に減って来た。
- Hara ga hijō ni hette kita.
- I started to get extremely hungry.
- 腹が非常に減って来た。
- 1905, Natsume Sōseki, 吾輩は猫である:
Usage notes
The phrase hara ga heru is generally considered somewhat more informal than the synonymous phrase 御中が空く (onaka ga suku). When in mixed company, the polite perfective form onaka ga sukimashita may be heard more often.
This phenomenon may be somewhat similar to the convention in some English-speaking communities of avoiding direct discussion of body parts. The term hara means “belly, stomach”, whereas the term onaka refers more indirectly to one's “insides”.
Conjugation
Conjugation of "腹が減る" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 腹が減ら | はらがへら | hara ga hera |
| Continuative (連用形) | 腹が減り | はらがへり | hara ga heri |
| Terminal (終止形) | 腹が減る | はらがへる | hara ga heru |
| Attributive (連体形) | 腹が減る | はらがへる | hara ga heru |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 腹が減れ | はらがへれ | hara ga here |
| Imperative (命令形) | 腹が減れ | はらがへれ | hara ga here |
| Key constructions | |||
| Passive | 腹が減られる | はらがへられる | hara ga herareru |
| Causative | 腹が減らせる 腹が減らす |
はらがへらせる はらがへらす |
hara ga heraseru hara ga herasu |
| Potential | 腹が減れる | はらがへれる | hara ga hereru |
| Volitional | 腹が減ろう | はらがへろう | hara ga herō |
| Negative | 腹が減らない | はらがへらない | hara ga heranai |
| Negative continuative | 腹が減らず | はらがへらず | hara ga herazu |
| Formal | 腹が減ります | はらがへります | hara ga herimasu |
| Perfective | 腹が減った | はらがへった | hara ga hetta |
| Conjunctive | 腹が減って | はらがへって | hara ga hette |
| Hypothetical conditional | 腹が減れば | はらがへれば | hara ga hereba |
Idioms
- 腹が減っては戦ができぬ (hara ga hette wa ikusa ga dekinu): “one cannot do battle on an empty belly”