暮(く)れる

くれる
verb (ichidan)
to get dark; to come to an end (day, year)
自動詞 intransitivetime-generalchange
Conjugation
AffirmativeNegative
Present暮(く)れる暮(く)れない
Present polite暮(く)れます暮(く)れません
Past暮(く)れた暮(く)れなかった
Past polite暮(く)れました暮(く)れませんでした
て form暮(く)れて暮(く)れなくて
ている present暮(く)れている暮(く)れていない
ている polite暮(く)れています暮(く)れていません
ている past暮(く)れていた暮(く)れていなかった
ている past polite暮(く)れていました暮(く)れていませんでした
Conditional ば暮(く)れれば暮(く)れなければ
Conditional たら暮(く)れたら暮(く)れなかったら
Volitional暮(く)れよう—
Volitional polite暮(く)れましょう—
Potential暮(く)れられる暮(く)れられない
Passive暮(く)れられる暮(く)れられない
Causative暮(く)れさせる暮(く)れさせない
Imperative暮(く)れろ暮(く)れるな
1. to get dark; (of the sun) to set
Said of the day or the sun: evening comes and it grows dark. The subject is almost always 日(ひ) (the day or the sun).
日(ひ)が暮(く)れる。
It gets dark.
In winter it gets dark early.
We'd better get down the mountain before it gets dark.
2. to come to an end (a year, a season)
Said of a year or season drawing to its close, as in 年(とし)が暮(く)れる. Also the source of 暮(く)れ, the end of the year.
年(とし)が暮(く)れる。
The year draws to a close.
This year too will be over in a few days.
I kept busy every day, and the year was over before I knew it.

An intransitive verb whose subject is a stretch of time: the day, the year, a season. The opposite is 明(あ)ける (dawn breaks; a new year or the rainy season begins).

Common expressions

Watch out

くれる written in kana is the everyday giving verb (to give me, to do for me). 暮(く)れる always has a time word as its subject or sits in one of the set phrases above.