尽きる・竭きる|つきるtsukiru[2]nakadaka (mid-high)
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Which spelling to use
尽きる尽きる（つきる） is the most common and standard form, using a kanji-and-kana spelling. It is the form learners are most likely to encounter in writing.
竭きる竭きる（つきる） is less common and uses an outdated kanji. It appears as a written variant, but beginners should use 尽きる（つきる） instead.
Definitions
- ichidan verb, intransitive verbto be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 尽きる（つきる） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 尽きます（つきます） |
| Negative (nai) | 尽きない（つきない） |
| polite (masen) | 尽きません（つきません） |
| classical zu / nu | 尽きず・尽きぬ（つきず・つきぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 尽きた（つきた） |
| polite (mashita) | 尽きました（つきました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 尽きなかった（つきなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 尽きませんでした（つきませんでした） |
| Te form | 尽きて（つきて） |
| Potential | 尽きられる（つきられる） |
| Passive | 尽きられる（つきられる） |
| Causative | 尽きさせる（つきさせる） |
| Causative passive | 尽きさせられる（つきさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 尽きれば（つきれば） |
| tara | 尽きたら（つきたら） |
| Volitional | 尽きよう（つきよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 尽きましょう（つきましょう） |
| Imperative | 尽きろ（つきろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Transitive / intransitive pair
資金が尽きる
尽きる focuses on the subject’s state of being exhausted or coming to an end, while 尽くす focuses on the action of using something up completely.
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Synonyms & antonyms
- SynonymなくなるNeutralThe everyday, most common word for something being gone or vanishing; 「尽きる」 stresses being used up to the very end and has a written flavor.
- SynonymきれるNeutralCovers running out or expiring, as in 「電池が切れる」; 「尽きる」 stresses complete exhaustion.
- Synonym種切れたねぎれCasualColloquial word for topics or tricks running out; 「尽きる」 is the more written choice.
- Related枯渇こかつWrittenFormal, written word for resources or funds running dry; 「尽きる」 is broader, also covering topics or luck being used up.
- Related涸れるかれるNeutralSaid of springs, ponds and the like drying up; 「尽きる」 is broader, taking abstract things like stamina or topics as well.
- Antonym続くつづくNeutralMeans to continue or go on, the opposite of 「尽きる」 in its sense of coming to an end.
- Antonym有り余るありあまるNeutralMeans to be in excess, more than enough to use up — the opposite of 「尽きる」's sense of being exhausted.
Use 「尽きる」 when strength, resources, or a topic are completely used up, as in 「話が尽きない」「運が尽きる」. For the everyday sense of being gone, say 「無くなる」; for running out, 「切れる」; for resources drying up, 「枯渇」; for being in surplus, 「有り余る」.
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Japanese definitions
Kanji in this word
