To Add
To Include
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb.
The kanji itself means add and this word is the verb version of that: to add.
This is a transitive verb, meaning that you are doing the adding to something else. You add a nose to your snowman, for example.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
You decide to add something and then to add something else, and you end up with quite a quantity (くわ) of things. Just keep adding and adding forever. What a huge QUANTITY you now have!
牛にゅうを二カップ加えて、ゆっくりかき回してください。
Please add two cups of milk and stir slowly.
コウイチ君も仲間に加えてあげてよ。
Can you include Koichi-kun in your group too?
オバマ大統領が作った料理に、塩をひとつまみ加えた。
I added a pinch of salt to the dish President Obama made.