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45 湿る To Be Damp

Alternative Meanings

To Be Moist, To Be Wet

Part of Speech

Intransitive verb and Godan verb

Reading

しめる

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

Context Sentence

昨日の夜、寝汗をたくさんかいちゃったから、ベットが何だか湿ってるのよね。

I sweat a lot when I was sleeping last night and my bed is a little damp.

Meaning Explanation

Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means damp so the verb vocab version is to be damp or to be moist. Ewww.

Reading Explanation

You have to think of something that's damp and moist. To do that, think of He-Man's girlfriend, She-Man (しめ). She has been hanging out in a greenhouse and is now kind of damp. He-Man hands her a towel to dry off.

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