はねる・撥ねるhaneru[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

Common
Definitions
  1. ichidan verb, transitive verbto hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down
    すんでのところで車くるまにはねられるところだった。↗
    I was nearly hit by a car.
  2. ichidan verb, transitive verbto reject; to eliminate; to exclude; to get rid of
  3. ichidan verb, transitive verbto refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to turn down
  4. ichidan verb, transitive verbto flip; to splash; to splatter
    通とおりがかりの車くるまが私わたしたちに水みずをはねた。↗
    A passing car splashed water on us.
  5. ichidan verb, transitive verbto take (a percentage)
  6. ichidan verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbto stick up (e.g. of hair); to curl up (e.g. of a moustache); to sweep up (the end of a brush stroke)
    今朝けさは髪の毛かみのけが撥はねてるんだ。せめて手鏡てかがみを貸かしてくれ、そこの引き出ひきだしにしまってあるだろ。↗
    My hair's messed up this morning. At least lend me a hand mirror - it should be shut in the drawer there.
  7. ichidan verb, intransitive verbto pronounce as a syllabic nasal
Conjugation
Dictionary formはねる
Polite (masu)はねます
Negative (nai)はねない
polite (masen)はねません
classical zu / nuはねず・はねぬ
Past (ta)はねた
polite (mashita)はねました
Past negative (nakatta)はねなかった
polite (masen deshita)はねませんでした
Te formはねて
Potentialはねられる
Passiveはねられる
Causativeはねさせる
Causative passiveはねさせられる
Conditional (ba)はねれば
taraはねたら
Volitionalはねよう
polite (mashou)はねましょう
Imperativeはねろ

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Antonym受け入れるうけいれるNeutralAn antonym: to accept or take in something offered, the opposite of 「撥ねる」 in its sense of rejecting or eliminating, as in 「申請を受け入れる」.
  • Antonym拾うひろうNeutralAn antonym: to pick something up or select it out, the opposite of 「撥ねる」 when it means discarding what is unwanted.

Use 「撥ねる」 for being hit or knocked down by a car, rejecting or removing defective items, or refusing, as in 「車に撥ねられる」 and 「不良品を撥ねる」. The antonyms are 「受け入れる」, to accept, and 「拾う」, to pick up.

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Japanese definitions
  1. (撥はねる・跳はねる)液体えきたいなどがはじけて飛び散とびちる。
  2. (撥はねる)物ものなどを弾き飛はじきとばす。乗り物のりものが人ひとなどに衝突しょうとつする。
  3. (撥はねる)基準きじゅんに満みたないものを除のぞく。
  4. (撥はねる)人ひとの取り分とりぶんの一部いちぶをかすめとる。
  5. (撥はねる)断ことわる。
  6. (撥はねる)物ものの端はしを勢いきおいよく上うえに向むける。
  7. (撥はねる)撥音はつおんで言ゆう。
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