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31 積む To Pile Things Up

Alternative Meanings

To Accumulate

Part of Speech

Transitive verb and Godan verb

Reading

つむ

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

Context Sentence

それじゃあ2人組を作って、トラックに七面鳥を積み始めて下さい。

Now please grab a partner and begin loading the truck with turkey.

Meaning Explanation

積もる is "to accumulate." Now you're doing the accumulating, and in order to do that you must go to pile things up. More and more and more. How do you know that this verb is when you're doing the accumulating? It's because you are piling up cows (む). Wow, a cow piler.

Reading Explanation

The reading comes from 積もる, so pile up your knowledge and remember it that way.

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