To Get Better
To Get Well, To Heal
intransitive verb, godan verb
The kanji 治 means cure, but this verb just refers to the more passive process of getting better: it means to get better, to get well, or simply to heal.
治る isn't about someone actively curing something, it's just about something getting better — like 自然に治る (to heal naturally) or 薬で治る (to get better with medicine). How to remember this? If you want to get better, tell your illness it's being rude (る). As soon as you call it out for being rude, it'll heal. That's just science.
This uses the same reading you learned with the related word 治す, but here's a mnemonic just in case:
When you're sick, your mom calls every day to say, "You have to get better, now (なお)! Do it — get better NOW!" Bullying you into healing is a total Mom-move, and somehow it works. There, you're all better now.
お前の病気は必ず治る。
Your disease will most definitely be cured.
ケガは治ったが、キズが残った。
His injuries have healed, but the scars remain.
「バカは一生治らない」っていうことわざ知ってる？
Do you know the saying "stupidity can never be cured"?
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