入る（はいる）
JLPT N5 · Godan verb (Group 1)
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: to enter
Conjugation
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| masu-form (polite) | 入ります | はいります |
| te-form | 入って | はいって |
| ta-form (past) | 入った | はいった |
| nai-form (negative) | 入らない | はいらない |
| potential form | 入れる | はいれる |
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Example sentences
- 部屋に入る前に、ドアをノックする。 — I knock on the door before entering the room.
- 温泉に入って、ゆっくり温まった。 — I got into the hot spring and warmed up slowly.
Idioms & proverbs containing “入る”
- 葷酒山門に入るを許さず (くんしゅさんもんにいるをゆるさず) — bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited
- 虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る (ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる) — out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den
- 入るを量りて出ずるを為す (いるをはかりていずるをなす) — consider your income before spending
- 入るを量りて出ずるを制す (いるをはかりていずるをせいす) — cut your coat according to your cloth
- 強弩の末魯縞に入る能わず (きょうどのすえろこうにいるあたわず) — even the strong will grow weak; (even an arrow fired from) a strong bow loses momentum until it cannot even penetrate a piece of thin silk from Lu
- 宝さかって入る時はさかって出る (たからさかっているときはさかってでる) — ill-gotten gains fade as fast as they were obtained
Antonyms
- 出る (でる) — to exit / come out
Related words
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