増える
ふえる
hepburn fueru
to increase (intransitive)
Part of speech · ichidan-verb
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Examples
- 最近、外国人の観光客が増えています。Recently, foreign tourists have been increasing.
- 体重が少し増えました。My weight has increased a little.
Collocations
人が増える体重が増えるだんだん増える数が増える増えていく
Mnemonic
増える fueru — kanji 増 (to increase) + the ichidan ending える. Intransitive: a number or amount rises on its own, subject marked by が. Its transitive partner is 増やす (fuyasu, to increase). The opposite flow is 減る (heru, to decrease), the intransitive pair of 減らす. 増 is the shinjitai form.
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