いずれ

/idure/ → /id͡zure/ → /izure/

Compound of interrogative pronoun いづ (izu) and suffix れ (re). Long form of いづ (izu).

• (Tokyo) いずれ [ìzúré] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [izɨɾe̞]

いずれ • (izure) ^{←いづれ (idure)?}

1. (archaic) indeterminate demonstrative pronoun:
   1. which... (of three or more choices)

      Synonym: どれ

      • late 10th century, Taketori Monogatari:

        「いづれも劣り優りおはしまさねば、御心ざしの程は見ゆべし。

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      • late 10th century, Taketori Monogatari:

        いかゞしけん、疾き風吹きて、世界暗がりて、舟を吹もてありく。いづれの方とも知らず、舟を海中にまかり入ぬべく吹きまはして、浪は舟にうちかけつゝ捲き入れ、神は落ちかゝるやうにひらめく。

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • late 10th century, Taketori Monogatari:

        大臣上達を召して、「いづれの山か天に近き」と問はせ給ふに [...]

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. when...
   3. which way...; where...

いずれ • (izure) ^{←いづれ (idure)?}

1. someday; one day; before long

   何(いず)れにしても（せよ）

   izure ni shite mo (seyo)

   in any event; at any rate

2. in the end, eventually

• 何(いず)れ菖蒲(あやめ)か杜若(かきつばた) (izure ayame ka kakitsubata)
• 何(いず)れを見(み)ても山(やま)家(が)育(そだ)ち (izure o mite mo yamaga sodachi)

• Sakakura, Atsuyoshi with Yūichi Ōtsu, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Toshiko Abe, Imai Gen'e (1957), Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 9: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Yamato Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN