# 並べる
## Japanese

* Kanji in this term
* 並
* なら Grade: 6
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spellings
* 竝べる (kyūjitai) 双べる

### Etymology

The regular 下一段活用 (shimo ichidan katsuyō, “lower monograde conjugation”) shift of Old Japanese and Classical Japanese verb 並ぶ (narabu, “to line up (intransitive); to line something up (transitive)”).
The root verb narabu appears in Old Japanese, at least as early as the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.
Probably reflecting the same nara root as verb 均す・平す (narasu, “to flatten something out, to line something up horizontally”) + ぶ (bu, suffix attaching to nouns and adjectives to indicate ongoing state or likeness). If so, probably deriving ultimately from verb 成る・為る・生る (naru, “to come into being; to become”), 慣る・馴る・狎る・熟る (naru, “to become normal, to become regular, to become fitting”, classical form of modern なれる (nareru)).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ならべる [nàrábérú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [na̠ɾa̠be̞ɾɯ̟]
* Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「並べる」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary :
| Stem forms ||||
| Terminal (終止形) Attributive (連体形) | 並べる | ならべる | [nàrábérú] |
| Imperative (命令形) | 並べろ | ならべろ | [nàrábéró] |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | 並べられる | ならべられる | [nàrábérárérú] |
| Causative | 並べさせる | ならべさせる | [nàrábésásérú] |
| Potential | 並べられる | ならべられる | [nàrábérárérú] |
| Volitional | 並べよう | ならべよー | [nàrábéyóꜜò] |
| Negative | 並べない | ならべない | [nàrábénáí] |
| Negative perfective | 並べなかった | ならべなかった | [nàrábénáꜜkàttà] |
| Formal | 並べます | ならべます | [nàrábémáꜜsù] |
| Perfective | 並べた | ならべた | [nàrábétá] |
| Conjunctive | 並べて | ならべて | [nàrábété] |
| Hypothetical conditional | 並べれば | ならべれば | [nàrábéréꜜbà] |

### Verb

並(なら)べる • (naraberu) transitive ichidan (stem 並(なら)べ (narabe), past 並(なら)べた (narabeta))
Japanese verb pair :
| active | 並(なら)べる |
| mediopassive | 並(なら)ぶ |
* to line something up
* to arrange things, to set up

#### Conjugation

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") :
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | 並べ | ならべ | narabe |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | 並べ | ならべ | narabe |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | 並べる | ならべる | naraberu |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | 並べる | ならべる | naraberu |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | 並べれ | ならべれ | narabere |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | 並べよ¹ 並べろ² | ならべよ¹ ならべろ² | narabeyo¹ narabero² |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | 並べられる | ならべられる | naraberareru |
| Causative | 並べさせる 並べさす | ならべさせる ならべさす | narabesaseru narabesasu |
| Potential | 並べられる 並べれる³ | ならべられる ならべれる³ | naraberareru narabereru³ |
| Volitional | 並べよう | ならべよう | narabeyō |
| Negative | 並べない 並べぬ 並べん | ならべない ならべぬ ならべん | narabenai narabenu naraben |
| Negative continuative | 並べず | ならべず | narabezu |
| Formal | 並べます | ならべます | narabemasu |
| Perfective | 並べた | ならべた | narabeta |
| Conjunctive | 並べて | ならべて | narabete |
| Hypothetical conditional | 並べれば | ならべれば | narabereba |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential ||||

#### See also

* 並(なら)ぶ (narabu): to line up (intransitive)

### References

* 1 2 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
* 1 2 3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN