# はる
## Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はる – see the following entries. :
| 【春】2 | [noun] the spring (season) [noun] (by extension) the New Year [noun] adolescence, youth [noun] a heyday of one’s life [noun] a time of happiness after a long period of difficulty [noun] (slang, euphemistic) sexual intercourse |
| 【張る】 | [verb] to spread, to fill [verb] to swell [verb] put up, spread [verb] to stretch a rope, to post a cordon [verb] to stick out (arms, chest), to be prominent [verb] to slap [verb] to be nervous, to be tense [verb] to be expensive [verb] to speculate, to stake money on [verb] to add (water) until a container is full |
| 【貼る】 | [verb] to stick, to paste [verb] to post (a message or an image) |
| 【暖あたた】6 | [proper noun] a female given name Alternative spellings いふ, うらら, だん, のどか, のん, はるか, はるな, ひなた |
(This term, はる (haru), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as はる, see Category:Japanese kanji read as はる.) :

### Suffix

はる • (-haru)
* (Kansai) verbal suffix expressing respect to subject of verb; X-a-haru is equivalent to standard o-X-i ni naru.
** 2005 August 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “第(だい)六(ろく)十(じゅう)五(ご)訓(くん)　外(がい)見(けん)だけで人(ひと)を判(はん)断(だん)しちゃダメ [Lesson 65: Don’t Judge People by Their Looks]”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) [Silver Soul], volume 8 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
    土(ひじ)方(かた)はんって　二(に)枚(まい)目(め)やしクールやしさぞモテはるんでしょ？そうでもねーよいややわ〰ウソばっかり土(ひじ)方(かた)はん　土(ひじ)方(かた)はんアレ？それ　何(なに)食(た)べてはるん？お茶(ちゃ)づけ土(ひじ)方(かた)スペシャルだ　食(く)うか？
       Hijikata-hantte nimaime yashi kūru yashi
       Hijikata-han, yer so cool and handsome!
       Sazo moteharun desho?
       Ah bet yer very popular with the ladies! Ain’tcha?
       Sō demo nē yo
       Nah, not really
       Iyayawa~ uso bakkari
       No waaay~ I don’t believe that
       Hijikata-han Hijikata-han
       Hijikata-han, Hijikata-han
       Are? Sore nani tabete harun?
       Eh? Whatcha eatin’ there?
       Ochazuke Hijikata Supesharu da Kuu ka?
       Ochazuke Hijikata Special. Want some?

#### Usage notes

Characteristic of Kyoto 敬語 (keigo, honorific/court language), used throughout Kansai dialect. Intermediate in politeness between base (informal) form of verb and polite -masu form, though in Kyoto widely used in casual speech, and much closer to informal.
* In Osaka and surrounding areas, attaches to -masu stem.
* In Kyoto and surrounding areas, such as Nara and Shiga, attaches to -a inflection of verb; with vowel stems, takes epenthetic -ya-
** toor-u (to pass) → toora-haru. ik-u (to go) → ika-haru.
** mi-ru (to see) → mi-haru or mi-ya-haru. i-ru (to be) → i-haru or i-ya-haru. suru (to do) → shi-haru or shi-ya-haru. kuru (to come) → ki-haru or ki-ya-haru.
* After て form of verb, sometimes て changes た, is equivalent to irassharu: kangaete haru or kangaeta haru (= kangaete irassharu).
* 〜はる can in turn take ます for additional politeness, yielding 〜はります, and other polite endings such as 〜んです, yielding 〜はるんです.

#### Conjugation

Stem forms :
| Imperfective (未然形) | はら | hara |
| Continuative (連用形) | はり | hari |
| Terminal (終止形) | はる | haru |
| Attributive (連体形) | はる | haru |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | はれ¹ | hare¹ |
| Imperative (命令形) | はれ¹ | hare¹ |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | - | - |
| Causative | - | - |
| Potential | - | - |
| Volitional | - | - |
| Negative | はらへん はれへん はらん | harahen harehen haran |
| Negative continuative | - | - |
| Formal | はります | harimasu |
| Perfective | はった | hatta |
| Conjunctive | はって | hatte |
| Hypothetical conditional | はれば¹ はったら | hareba¹ hattara |
| ¹ Rare, especially Imperative form. ||||

### References

* Palter, DC and Slotsve, Kaoru Horiuchi (1995). Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects And Culture of the Kansai Region. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing. →ISBN, pp. 32–34