あれ
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Japanese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
The long form of a. Compound of a and suffix re.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: [are]
Pronoun[edit]
- (archaic) first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 5, poem #808)
- 多都乃麻乎 阿礼波毛等米牟 阿遠尓与志 奈良乃美夜古迩 許牟比等乃多仁
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3361)
- 安思我良能 乎弖毛許乃母尓 佐須和奈乃 可奈流麻之豆美 許呂安礼比毛等久
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 15, poem #3585)
- 和伎母故我 之多尓毛伎余等 於久理多流 許呂母能比毛乎 安礼等可米也母
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 17, poem #3932)
- 須麻比等乃 海辺都祢佐良受 夜久之保能 可良吉恋乎母 安礼波須流香物
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 18, poem #4058)
- 多知婆奈能 登乎能多知婆奈 夜都代尓母 安礼波和須礼自 許乃多知婆奈乎
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 20, poem #4298)
- 霜上尓 安良礼多婆之里 伊夜麻之尓 安礼波麻為許牟 年緒奈我久 古今未詳
- c. 1001–1014: Genji Monogatari (Yume no Ukihashi)
- [...]と、聞こえ動かして、几帳のもとに、おし寄せたてまつりたれば、あれにもあらず、居給へるけはい[...]
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 5, poem #808)
Etymology 2[edit]
From older kare > are.
Pronoun[edit]
- (deictically) that one over there (far from the speaker and the addressee)
- (anaphorically) that one we both know (both the speaker and the addressee know)
Alternative forms[edit]
See also[edit]
Japanese demonstratives
| ko- “this” (close to speaker) |
so- “that” (close to listener) |
a- “that over there” (far from both) |
do- “which” (indeterminate, question) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object | これ | それ | あれ | どれ |
| これら | それら | あれら | — | |
| Determiner | この | その | あの | どの |
| これらの | それらの | あれらの | — | |
| Kind | こんな | そんな | あんな | どんな |
| Place | ここ | そこ | あそこ* | どこ |
| Direction | こちら | そちら | あちら | どちら |
| こっち | そっち | あっち | どっち | |
| Human | こいつ | そいつ | あいつ | どいつ |
| Manner | こう | そう | ああ** | どう |
| * irregular ** regular (long vowel) |
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Usage notes[edit]
- Indicates something far off, removed from both speaker and addressee. Contrast with sore, indicating something removed from the speaker but closer to the addressee.
Etymology 3[edit]
Interjection[edit]
あれ (romaji are)
See also[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
The nomalized form of the verb are-.
Noun[edit]
あれ (romaji are)
References[edit]
- 1999 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240001-8:
- 2002 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240003-4:
- 2003 [c. 759], Akihiro Satake; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man'yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240004-2:
- 1963 June 17 [c. 1001-1014], Tokuhei Yamagishi, Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 5 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0018-4: