終わる

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 終わる, read おわる, is an intransitive verb for work, a season, or another process coming to an end.
• Basic usage: 仕事が終わったら makes completion a condition; 冬が終わり links winter's end to the arrival of warm winds.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Conditional 終わったら and linking 終わり
  • たら sets completion as the trigger for a later action, while the continuative form 終わり sequences the next event.