終わる details

write + finish doing

kaki owaru

finish doing

meaning: finish writing

やっとレポート書きかきおわる！

yatto repooto kaki owaru!

I finally finish writing my report! casual

本ほんを読よみ終おわったら、棚たなに戻もどしておいてください。

hon o yomiowattara, tana ni modoshite oite kudasai.

When you finish reading the book, please put it back on the shelf. neutral

past
polite

Examples

finish doing — the activity reaches its natural end

やっとレポート書かき終おわった！

yatto repooto kakiowatta!

I finally finished writing my report! casual

本ほんを読よみ終おわったら、棚たなに戻もどしておいてください。

hon o yomiowattara, tana ni modoshite oite kudasai.

When you finish reading the book, please put it back on the shelf. neutral

アンケートを書かき終おわりましたら、受付うけつけにお出だしください。

ankeeto o kakiowarimashitara, uketsuke ni o dashi kudasai.

Once you have finished filling in the questionnaire, please hand it in at the reception desk. formal

Formation

{V-masu-stem}おわるattaches to ます-stem

Notes

States (×住み終わる) and point-like events (×忘れ終わる) refuse it; rain "finishes" as 降りやむ, not ×降り終わる. The compound keeps を (本を読み終わる) although 終わる alone is intransitive. 終える is the take-charge sibling: 書き終える frames the agent closing the task, and skews written.

Related patterns

Similar

てしまう
読み終わった states the endpoint of a durative activity and nothing more; 読んでしまった adds totality or affect and also fits punctual verbs — 忘れてしまった works where ×忘れ終わった cannot.

Opposite

始めるplain-antonym
The same masu-stem frame at opposite ends of the event — 始める opens activities and mere onsets alike (降り始める), while 終わる needs a completable activity, so 降り終わった sounds off where 降りやんだ is natural.

Lookalikes

続ける
Identical compound shape one tail apart — 書き終わる closes the activity, 書き続ける refuses the close; a skimming reader parses the shared masu-stem and coasts, so the tail verb carries the entire meaning.

Same meaning

finish doing; do all the way through

Pattern	Attaches to
`kiru` (planned)	—