JLPT N4 vocabulary
通る: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
とおる1Atamadaka · high start
Godan verb (u-verb)
Meaning
- to go by, to go past, to go along, to travel along, to pass through, to use (a road), to take (a route), to go via, to go by way of
- to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.), to operate (between), to connect
- to go indoors, to go into a room, to be admitted, to be shown in, to be ushered in, to come in
- to penetrate, to pierce, to skewer, to go through, to come through
- to permeate, to soak into, to spread throughout
- to carry (e.g. of a voice), to reach far
- to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen), to be relayed, to be conveyed
- to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.), to be approved, to be accepted
- to go by (a name), to be known as, to be accepted as, to have a reputation for
- to be coherent, to be logical, to be reasonable, to be comprehensible, to be understandable, to make sense
- to get across (e.g. of one's point), to be understood
- to pass for, to come across as, to seem like
- to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
- (archaic) to be well-informed, to be wise
- (suffix) (godan verb) to do ... completely, to do ... thoroughly (after the -masu stem of a verb)
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present辞書形 · ない形 | 通る | 通 |
| Plain pastた形 · なかった形 | 通 | 通 |
| Polite presentます形 | 通 | 通 |
| Polite pastました形 | 通 | 通 |
| Te-formて形 | 通 | 通 |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 通 | 通 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 通 | 通 |
| Let’s / will意向形 | 通 | —not in common use |
| Want toたい形 | 通 | 通 |
| Command / don’t命令形 · 禁止形 | 通 | 通る |
| Can · passive · causative | ||
| Can (potential)可能形 | 通 | 通 |
| Passive受身形 | 通 | 通 |
| Make / let使役形 | 通 | 通 |
| Be made to使役受身形 | 通 | 通 |