1.
to go mad, to go crazy
To lose one's sanity.
気が狂いそう。
I'm going crazy.
狂ったように踊った。
I danced like crazy.
寂しさで狂いそうだ。
I feel like I'm going mad from loneliness.
恋に狂う。
To go mad with love.
あの事件のあと、彼は気が狂ったように叫んだ。
After that incident, he screamed as if he had gone mad.
2.
to go wrong, to be out of order
For something to malfunction or deviate.
時計が狂っている。
The clock is wrong.
予定が狂った。
The schedule went awry.
計画が狂った。
The plan went wrong.
体内時計が狂っている。
My body clock is off.
季節が狂っている。
The seasons are out of order.
勘が狂った。
My intuition was off.
狂う is an intransitive verb meaning to go mad, go wrong, or malfunction, depending on the subject.
TRANSITIVITY:
- Type: 自動詞 (intransitive)
- No transitive pair
MEANINGS BY CONTEXT:
1. People: to go mad, lose one's mind
2. Machines/clocks: to malfunction, be inaccurate
3. Plans/schedules: to go awry, be disrupted
4. Senses/intuition: to be off, unreliable
ASPECT (ている):
狂っている describes the resulting state: 'is crazy,' 'is wrong,' 'is off.'
COMMON EXPRESSIONS:
- 気が狂う: to go insane
- 狂ったように: like crazy, frantically
- 時計が狂っている: the clock is wrong
- 予定が狂う: the schedule goes awry
- ~に狂う: to go crazy over ~
RELATED:
- 狂気: madness, insanity
- 狂わせる: to drive mad (causative)