減ります（へります、herimasu）
- to decrease (intransitive)
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減ります (へります, romaji: herimasu) means "to decrease (intransitive)" in Japanese. It is a N4 Mid-level Verb (group 1) word.
| Meaning: | to decrease (intransitive) |
| Level: | N4 Mid |
| Lexical Category: | Verb (group 1) (五段動詞) |
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Verb Conjugation
Basic Conjugation
Romaji：herimasu
Hiragana：へります
Polite-form (ます形) | へります減ります。decrease (intransitive). |
Dict-form (辞書形) | 減るdecrease (intransitive) |
Connect-form (て形) | 減って + <Verb> |
Not-form (ない形) | 減らないnot decrease (intransitive) |
Advanced Conjugation
Past-form (た形) | 減ったdecrease (intransitive))ed |
Terminal-form (終止形) | 減る。decrease (intransitive). |
If-form (仮定形) | 減ればif decrease (intransitive) |
Let's-form (意志形) | 減ろう !let's decrease (intransitive) |
Command-form (命令形) | 減れ !decrease (intransitive) ! |
AI Explanation
The Japanese word 減ります 減ります means "to decrease," "to diminish," "to lessen," or "to be reduced." It refers to a reduction in quantity, amount, size, value, or intensity. It implies a change where something becomes smaller or less than it was before. It is an intransitive verb, meaning it does not take a direct object. In other words, something is decreasing on its own, and not by the action of an external force.
⚫︎ 体重が減りました Translation: My weight decreased. ⚫︎ ガソリンが減りました Translation: The gasoline decreased. ⚫︎ 在庫が減っています Translation: The inventory is decreasing.
⚫︎ 減ります is used to describe a decrease in various things, such as weight, volume, number, time, and quality. ⚫︎ It is appropriate for formal and informal situations. ⚫︎ Often used with particles like が (ga) to mark what is decreasing. ⚫︎ The tense of the verb changes depending on the time of the decrease: 減ります (present/future), 減りました (past).
⚫︎ The word is typically written in hiragana as へります. ⚫︎ The kanji is 減, and the full word is written as 減ります. ⚫︎ The okurigana (suffix hiragana) is always ります in this specific conjugation.
⚫︎ 少なくなる: to become fewer/less (casual) ⚫︎ 減少する: to decrease/decline (formal) ⚫︎ 下がる: to go down (can refer to prices or temperatures) ⚫︎ 落ちる: to fall/drop (can refer to a decrease in value or score) ⚫︎ 縮む: to shrink
⚫︎ 増えます: to increase ⚫︎ 増える: to increase ⚫︎ 多くなる: to become more ⚫︎ 上がる: to rise/go up
最近、野菜の値段が減っていますね。 ・Translation: Vegetables prices have been decreasing recently, haven't they? ・Explanation: This sentence describes the recent reduction in the price of vegetables. 減って is the -te form of 減ります.
砂糖の量を減らして、甘さを調整しました。 ・Translation: I reduced the amount of sugar and adjusted the sweetness. ・Explanation: This sentence uses the causative form 減らして to show that the speaker is causing something to decrease. This demonstrates a related verb, but 減ります is the original form of the verb.
The kanji 減 is composed of 氵 (water) on the left side, which represents a connection to water or fluids, and 咸 on the right, which conveys the meaning of "all," "completely." Together, they suggest a reduction or diminishment of something until it is almost nothing.