はてる – Vocabulary details

はてる

Verb (1-dan, intransitive)

1. to end; to be finished; to be exhausted

生いき物ものの臭においのしない、果はてない大だい地ちが延えん々えんと続つづいている。Endless land, devoid of the scent of living things, stretches on and on.

2. to die; to perish

あなたはこんなところで果はてるべき人ひとではないのです！！You are not someone who should die in a place like this!

Auxiliary verb (1-dan)

3. to do utterly; to do completely

indicates an extreme has been reached

かつてのことは忘わすれ果はてて、あの街まちで過すごすのだと思おもっていた。I had thought I would forget all about the past and live in that town.

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to fall into ruin; to become dilapidated; to become run-down; to become desolate; to be badly neglected

to be reduced to (e.g. poverty); to end up as

to be completely changed (for the worse); to be transformed

多おおくの兵へい士しが戦せん場じょうではてた。

Many soldiers died on the battlefield.

彼かれは異い国こくの地ちではてた。

He died in a foreign land.

駅えき前まえの商しょう店てん街がいはすっかり寂さびれはてた。

The shopping street in front of the station has become utterly deserted.

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