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恥じる: to feel ashamed | JLPT N1 Vocabulary | JLPTMatome

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恥じる

JLPT N1Vocabulary

恥(は)じる

はじる

to feel ashamed

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Reading and meaning Verb conjugations Example sentences Kanji in this lesson

Reading and meaning

Reading: はじる
Romaji: hajiru
Meaning: to feel ashamed
Word type: ichidan verb

Verb conjugations

Present / future: 恥(は)じます
Present / future negative: 恥(は)じません
Past: 恥(は)じました
Past negative: 恥(は)じませんでした
Progressive / resulting state: 恥(は)じています
Te-form: 恥(は)じて
Negative connective: 恥(は)じないで
Without doing: 恥(は)じずに
Ba conditional: 恥(は)じれば
Tara conditional: 恥(は)じたら
Desire: 恥(は)じたいです
Volitional: 恥(は)じましょう
Command / request: 恥(は)じてください
Prohibition: 恥(は)じないでください
Potential: 恥(は)じられます
Potential negative: 恥(は)じられません
Passive: 恥(は)じられます
Causative: 恥(は)じさせます
Causative-passive: 恥(は)じさせられます

Present / future: 恥(は)じる
Present / future negative: 恥(は)じない
Past: 恥(は)じた
Past negative: 恥(は)じなかった
Progressive / resulting state: 恥(は)じている
Te-form: 恥(は)じて
Negative connective: 恥(は)じないで
Without doing: 恥(は)じずに
Ba conditional: 恥(は)じれば
Tara conditional: 恥(は)じたら
Desire: 恥(は)じたい
Volitional: 恥(は)じよう
Command / request: 恥(は)じろ
Prohibition: 恥(は)じるな
Potential: 恥(は)じられる
Potential negative: 恥(は)じられない
Passive: 恥(は)じられる
Causative: 恥(は)じさせる
Causative-passive: 恥(は)じさせられる

Example sentences

FuriganaEnglish

彼(

かれ

)

は

自分(じぶん)

の

失敗(しっぱい)

を

恥(は)

じるより、

原因(げんいん)

を

究明(きゅうめい)

しようとした。

Rather than feel ashamed of his mistake, he tried to investigate its cause.

彼(かれ)は過去(かこ)の過(あやま)ちを恥(は)じるあまり、故郷(こきょう)を離(はな)れた。

He was so ashamed of his past mistakes that he left his hometown.

公(おおやけ)の場(ば)で責任(せきにん)を果(は)たせない自分(じぶん)を恥(は)じるべきだ。

One should be ashamed of oneself for being unable to fulfill one's responsibilities in public.

彼女(かのじょ)は不正(ふせい)に手(て)を染(そ)めた事実(じじつ)を恥(は)じることなく、責任(せきにん)を他人(た)に押(んにお)しつけた。

Without feeling ashamed of the fact that she had engaged in wrongdoing, she shifted the blame onto others.

Kanji in this lesson

恥shame, dishonorJLPT N3

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