入れる

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. カバンに本を入れます。▶ —
   I put the book in the bag.
2. コーヒーに砂糖を入れますか。▶ —
   Do you take sugar in your coffee?

Collocations

Mnemonic

入れる ireru — the transitive pair of 入る, "to put in"; it takes in food, people, information alike. Stretched into compound verbs it grows strong — 受け入れる, 取り入れる, 書き入れる. The trap is 気に入る — the idiom of something entering the heart and becoming a liking, where the kanji reads いる, not はいる — the same character, a different voice. Kanji-reading kin: 入 reads Korean 'ip' (入口), Mandarin rù.

Quick check

1. Reading of the idiom 気に入る (to take a liking)?

   • ki ni iru (irregular reading for this idiom)
   • ki ni hairu (regular but wrong here)
   • ki ni ireru (transitive form, wrong)
   • ki ni hairareru (passive, wrong)