ば

• IPA^(key): [ba̠]

The hiragana character は (ha) with a dakuten (゛).

ば (romaji ba)

1. The hiragana syllable ば (ba). Its equivalent in katakana is バ (ba).

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

ば (rōmaji ba)

1. 場: a place; (physics) a field

ば (rōmaji -ba)

1. 場: sections of a play

ば (rōmaji -ba)

1. Attaches to the 仮定形 (kateikei, “hypothetical stem”) in modern Japanese, or to the 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis or incomplete stem”) in Classical Japanese, to form the hypothetical conditional: if; when
   • 2007, yura (lyrics), 神前暁 (music), “キラメキラリ”, in THE IDOLM@STER MASTER ARTIST 02 高槻やよい:

     宇 (う)宙 (ちゅう)から見 (み)れば地 (ち)球 (きゅう)も流 (なが)れ星 (ぼし)

     uchū kara mireba chikyū mo nagareboshi

     If you see from the universe the earth is also a shooting star

   私 (わたし)はあなたが隣 (となり)に居 (い)てくれればそれで幸 (しあわ)せなの！

   Watashi wa anata ga tonari ni ite kurereba sore de shiawase nano!

   I'll be happy as long as you are by my side.

2. (used with ほど) the more ..., the more

   学 (まな)べば学 (まな)ぶほど、何 (なに)も知 (し)らなかった事 (こと)に気 (き)づく

   Manabeba manabu hodo, nani mo shiranakatta koto ni kizuku

   The more I learned, the more I felt I didn't know anything.

3. (used with も) Links items in parallel; ... and ...

   日 (に)本 (ほん)語 (ご)もできれば英 (えい)語 (ご)もできる

   nihongo mo dekireba eigo mo dekiru

   to be able to speak both Japanese and English

4. (Classical Japanese) Attaches to the 已然形 (izenkei, “realis stem”) to form the provisional: as
   • c. late 9th – mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari

     それを見 (み)れば、三 (さん)寸 (すん)ばかりなる人 (ひと)いと美 (うつく)しうて居 (ゐ)たり。

     Sore o mireba, sansun bakari naru hito ito utsukushūte itari.

     When he looked at it, there sat a very lovely human being about three sun long.

• The hypothetical conditional is formed by attaching ば (ba) to the 仮定形 of a verb or adjective in modern Japanese. This is done to the 未然形 in classical Japanese, which persists in a few set phrases like ならば (nara ba) and 例えば (tatoeba) in modern Japanese.
• There is also 已然形 + ば in classical Japanese, which looks like 仮定形 + ば in modern Japanese, but introduces something occurred as a cause, occasion or circumstance.