冷やす
ひやす
hepburn hiyasu
to cool, to chill (transitive)
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 飲み物を冷蔵庫で冷やしておきました。I chilled the drinks in the refrigerator.
- 熱が出たので、頭を冷やしました。I had a fever, so I cooled my head.
Collocations
飲み物を冷やす頭を冷やす体を冷やすよく冷やす冷やして飲む
Mnemonic
冷やす hiyasu — from 冷 (cold), with the ice radical 冫. As a transitive verb, to make something cold. Its intransitive partner is 冷える (hieru, to grow cold). 飲み物を冷やす (to chill a drink) is transitive; 飲み物が冷える (a drink gets cold) is intransitive. 頭を冷やす = to cool one's head (calm down).
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What is the intransitive partner of 冷やす?