Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
1. to leave; to go away
2. to pass; to elapse
3. to be distant
Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)
4. to send away; to drive off; to divorce
Auxiliary verb (5-dan, る)
5. to (do) completely
after a -masu stem, esp. of a suru verb
Pre-noun adjective
6. last ... (e.g. "last April")
Kanji used
past
Pitch accent
Top 1100
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
to run away; to run off
to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
Examples (44 in total)
The typhoon is gone.
The snow has melted away.
Why are you leaving early?
Winter has gone. Spring has come.
The next day he went away.
People are saying that the crisis is over.
She left the stage last year.
He left Africa forever.
Why did Tom leave Boston?
Chaplin left America for good.
I'd like to talk to you before I leave.
He seems to have left the country.
This doesn't mean the danger has passed.
He left Japan never to come back.
We are leaving this country for good.
Close the door when you leave.
It has been ten years since he left Japan.
I must leave here today.
He left without saying good-bye to me.
I have made up my mind to leave Japan.
Tom passed away last night.
Byron left England, never to return.
I stayed there until he had left.
Nobody knows why he left the town.
They were leaving Japan the next day.
He had no idea why his wife left him.
I asked him not to go, but he left all the same.
Almost everyone has already left.
You are free to go or stay.
She left here long before you arrived.
Everything was as it had been when I left there.
He left the town and was never seen again.
Unable to prove his innocence, he was forced to leave his native town.
It is still a mystery why he suddenly left the town.
My sister married a high school teacher last June.
I decided to go away with the pilgrims.
We've decided to leave this town tomorrow morning.
We were greatly relieved to find that the worst dangers were over.
The good old days have gone, never to return.
Two months have passed since he left for France.
He left here a few days ago.
It's been exactly one week since Tom left.
In 1900, he left England, and he never returned.
The girl with whom he fell in love left him after a few months.