JLPT N4 vocabulary

通る: meaning, reading and conjugation

Reading and pitch accent

とおる1Atamadaka · high start

Godan verb (u-verb)

Meaning

  1. 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
  2. to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.), to operate (between), to connect
  3. to go indoors, to go into a room, to be admitted, to be shown in, to be ushered in, to come in
  4. to penetrate, to pierce, to skewer, to go through, to come through
  5. to permeate, to soak into, to spread throughout
  6. to carry (e.g. of a voice), to reach far
  7. to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen), to be relayed, to be conveyed
  8. to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.), to be approved, to be accepted
  9. to go by (a name), to be known as, to be accepted as, to have a reputation for
  10. to be coherent, to be logical, to be reasonable, to be comprehensible, to be understandable, to make sense
  11. to get across (e.g. of one's point), to be understood
  12. to pass for, to come across as, to seem like
  13. to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
  14. (archaic) to be well-informed, to be wise
  15. (suffix) (godan verb) to do ... completely, to do ... thoroughly (after the -masu stem of a verb)

Conjugation

通る · Godan verb (u-verb)
FormAffirmativeNegative
Basics
Plain present辞書形 · ない形通るとおる通らないとおらない
Plain pastた形 · なかった形通ったとおった通らなかったとおらなかった
Polite presentます形通りますとおります通りませんとおりません
Polite pastました形通りましたとおりました通りませんでしたとおりませんでした
Te-formて形通ってとおって通らなくてとおらなくて
Conditions and moods
If (-ba)ば形通ればとおれば通らなければとおらなければ
If / when (-tara)たら形通ったらとおったら通らなかったらとおらなかったら
Let’s / will意向形通ろうとおろう—not in common use
Want toたい形通りたいとおりたい通りたくないとおりたくない
Command / don’t命令形 · 禁止形通れとおれ通るなとおるな
Can · passive · causative
Can (potential)可能形通れるとおれる通れないとおれない
Passive受身形通られるとおられる通られないとおられない
Make / let使役形通らせるとおらせる通らせないとおらせない
Be made to使役受身形通らせられるとおらせられる通らせられないとおらせられない