To Get Burned
To Get Scorched, To Get Charred
intransitive verb, ichidan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means char, but the verb version is to get burned, to get scorched, or to get charred.
This is for when something is burned on the surface. Most of the time, 焦げる is the unhappy and accidental kind of burning. You can use 焦げる when your bread is burned in the toaster, for example, or a shirt is scorched and blackened by an iron.
The times where you were burned were mostly when you were a 子 (こ). That's because kids aren't good at working with hot things.
一定にかき混ぜることで、鍋の底が焦げることが防げるとお母さんが言っていたわ。
My mom said that you can prevent the bottom of the pan from getting burned by stirring consistently.