よる・依る・因る・拠る・由るyoru[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N3approx.Common
Definitions
  1. godan verb, intransitive verbto be due to; to be caused byesp. 依る, 拠る
    造つくられたもので、この方かたによらずできたものは一ひとつもない。↗
    Without him nothing was made that has been made.
  2. godan verb, intransitive verbto depend on; to turn onesp. 依る
    For this reason, the credibility of the book's authors rests on the credibility of their sources.
  3. godan verb, intransitive verbto be based on; to come fromesp. 因る, 由る
  4. godan verb, intransitive verbto be based at (a location, an organization); to be headquartered atesp. 拠る
Conjugation
Dictionary formよる
Polite (masu)よります
Negative (nai)よらない
polite (masen)よりません
classical zu / nuよらず・よらぬ
Past (ta)よった
polite (mashita)よりました
Past negative (nakatta)よらなかった
polite (masen deshita)よりませんでした
Te formよって
Potentialよれる
Passiveよられる
Causativeよらせる
Causative passiveよらせられる・よらされる
Conditional (ba)よれば
taraよったら
Volitionalよろう
polite (mashou)よりましょう
Imperativeよれ

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

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Related依拠いきょWrittenLiterary synonym of 依る; it stresses resting on something as a basis — typically sources or authorities — and is used chiefly as 依拠する, with に marking what is relied on.

Choose 依る, typically in the pattern 〜によって, for general statements of cause or dependence; reserve the literary 依拠 for formal writing that stresses grounding in sources or authorities.

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Japanese definitions
  1. ある原因げんいんから生しょうじる。
  2. ある条件じょうけんや状況じょうきょうしだいで結果けっかが変かわる。
  3. ある物事ものごとを基もとにし、そこから出でてくる。
  4. ある場所ばしょや組織そしきを活動かつどうの中心ちゅうしんとする。
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