夢

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 昨夜、不思議な夢を見ました。▶ —
   Last night I had a strange dream.
2. 将来の夢は宇宙飛行士です。▶ —
   My future dream is to be an astronaut.

Collocations

Mnemonic

Yume (夢) is the noun "dream" — both sleeping dreams and future hopes. Japanese pairs it with miru (to see) — yume wo miru (literally "see a dream") — distinct from Korean "to have / dream a dream" and English "have a dream." A cross-lingual verb-choice pitfall. Metaphor: yume no you na (dream-like, adjectival, marveling at the unreal / beautiful), masayume (prophetic dream coming true), akumu (nightmare), muchuu (mid-dream = absorbed / engrossed, abstract). Shourai no yume (future dream) fills children's essays and job interviews — paralleling Korean "jang-rae hui-mang." Japanese literature, from Souseki's Yume Juuya to Genji Monogatari's Yume no Ukihashi, treats yume as emotional / aesthetic core vocabulary. Memorize verb-noun collocation pitfalls.

Quick check

1. Japanese verb for "to have a dream"?

   • "Yume wo miru" — see-verb (general)
   • "Yume wo motsu" — only for ambition
   • "Yume wo suru" — ungrammatical
   • "Yume wo tsukuru" — awkward