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39 崩れる To Crumble

Alternative Meanings

To Collapse

Part of Speech

Intransitive verb and Ichidan verb

Reading

くずれる

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentence

ああっ！またお化粧が崩れてきちゃった。

Oh no! My make-up is coming off again.

Meaning Explanation

Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means crumble and the verb vocab version means to crumble, like, something is crumbling or collapsing.

Reading Explanation

The reading comes from 崩す, so if you know that you know this reading as well!

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