終る

Japanese

終(おわ)る • (owaru) ^{←をはる (wofaru)^?}intransitive godan (stem 終(おわ)り (owari), past 終(おわ)った (owatta))

Alternative spelling of 終わる
- 1985 Murakami Haruki - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 下 p199
  ポリスのテープが終(おわ)ると運転手(うんてんしゅ)はボブ・マーリーのライヴを聴(き)かせてくれた。
  Porisu no tēpu ga owaru to untenshu wa Bobu Mārī no raivu o kikasetekureta.
  When the police tape ended, the driver put on a recording of a Bob Marley concert.

The 1981 Cabinet notification prescribes (通則2) the okurigana usage 終わる, but 終る is permitted (通則2許容) because there's no fear of it being misread.

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