込む

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

  • 混む
  • 籠む

Pronunciation

Verb

込む (godan conjugation, hiragana こむ, rōmaji komu)

Japanese verb pair
active 込める
mediopassive 込む
  1. be crowded
  2. be complicated
  3. go into, go in
  4. put into
  5. become some state completely
  6. do thoroughly
  7. remain in the same state, such as remain sitting or remain silent

Usage notes

Commonly used as a light verb (second verb) in Japanese compound verbs, primarily showing emphasis, sometimes negative or violent, often with a sense of “enter” or “fill”, as in ねじ込む (nejikomu, screw in, jam in, stuff in).

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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