- to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; intransitive verb; auxiliary verb
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- to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
This meaning is used to describe the completion of an event, activity, or period of time. It indicates that something has reached its conclusion.
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In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.
Never mind that. More importantly, if we don't go soon the time-limited sales will finish.
I've already had the entrance ceremony. It's a university alongside the same railway line.
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.
The publication of the exam results over without incident, for the time being attention is naturally going to focus on the summer break, right?
Besides which that's only if unpacking the luggage proceeds smoothly and is finished by Sunday morning.