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笑える； 嗤える [sK]
【 わらえる 】
1. [v1,vi]
▶ to laugh
▶ to break into laughter
▶ to be made to laugh
2. [v1,vi]
▶ to be funny
▶ to be laughable
▶ to make one laugh
▶ to make one smile

Conjugations


History:
8. A 2023-01-13 11:25:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2023-01-12 20:17:05  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 笑える　 │ 2,018,703 │ 99.4% │
│ 嗤える　 │     1,070 │  0.1% │ - adding (only meikyo)
│ わらえる │    11,612 │  0.6% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
  Diff: 
@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>嗤える</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
6. A 2019-09-08 21:47:30  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2019-09-08 20:58:36  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
daijr: "ひとりでに笑えてくる。自然に笑った状態になる。おかしくて笑わずにいられない。「しぐさを見ているだけで―・えてくる」"
  Comments: 
According to the definition, the subject is the person who's laughing, not the thing that makes you laugh, but you also have usage like "あの大げさな名前が笑えるよね".
It might be clearer to have two senses.
  Diff: 
@@ -11,0 +12,11 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to laugh</gloss>
+<gloss>to break into laughter</gloss>
+<gloss>to be made to laugh</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>to be funny</gloss>
+<gloss>to be laughable</gloss>
+<gloss>to make one laugh</gloss>
@@ -13 +23,0 @@
-<gloss>to be laughable</gloss>
4. A 2019-06-01 00:45:10  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments: 
Fair enough.
  Diff: 
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>to be made to laugh</gloss>
+<gloss>to make one smile</gloss>
+<gloss>to be laughable</gloss>
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