治る
なおる
hepburn naoru
to be cured, to recover
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 風邪が治って元気になった。My cold healed and I am well again.
- 機嫌がやっと直りました。My mood finally lifted.
Collocations
治る (naoru, to heal, illness)直る (naoru, to be fixed, object)治療 (chiryou, treatment)完治 (kanchi, complete cure)回復 (kaifuku, recovery)
Mnemonic
Naoru splits by kanji: 治る = (illness, wound) heals; 直る = (object, mood, relationship) is fixed / restored. Same pronunciation, same intransitive verb shape, but the kanji decides meaning — a model case of Japanese homophonous-kanji disambiguation. Paired transitives: naosu — 治す (cure illness) vs 直す (fix object). Korean "natda / boggu-doe-da" maps the dual sense but Japanese visually enforces the split. 直る has the broader range — kigen ga naoru (mood lifts), kuruma ga naoru (car is fixed), kankei ga naoru (relationship mended). Table by collocation.
Quick check
Kanji form to fill "kigen ga ___"?