曇る
くもる
hepburn kumoru
to become cloudy
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 午後から空が曇ってきました。The sky has clouded over since the afternoon.
- 心配で表情が曇った。His face clouded over with worry.
Collocations
曇る (kumoru, to cloud over)曇り (kumori, cloudy)晴れる (hareru, to clear up)雨が降る (ame ga furu, rain falls)表情が曇る (hyoujou ga kumoru, face clouds)
Mnemonic
Kumoru (曇る) is a godan verb — the opposite of hareru. Intransitive, covering the sky, windows, or facial expression clouding over. The noun kumori (cloudy) is one of the four weather-forecast defaults — hare, kumori, ame, yuki. Extensions: hyoujou ga kumoru (face clouds = emotional layer), garasu ga kumoru (glass fogs up = physical layer), me ga kumoru (eyes cloud = cognitive layer, "judgment dimmed"). Same extension pattern as Korean "heurida / eoduwojida." The kanji 曇 = 雲 (cloud) over 日 (sun) — the visual intuition of clouds covering the sun.
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Meaning of "garasu ga kumoru"?