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JLPT N3 · Verb

埋める (umeru)

埋める (うめる, umeru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to bury (e.g. in the ground)”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
うめる
Romaji
umeru
Word class
Ichidan verb (る-verb)
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. to bury (e.g. in the ground) · ichidan verb, transitive
  2. to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed · ichidan verb, transitive
  3. to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to bridge (a difference, a gap); to fill (a seat, a vacant position); to fill out (a form, a sheet) · ichidan verb, transitive
  4. to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends; to compensate for · ichidan verb, transitive
  5. to put cold water (in a bath) · ichidan verb, transitive

Example sentences

犬はよく骨を地面に埋める。
Dogs often bury bones.
Tatoeba #175288
群衆がホールをうめつくした。
The crowd filled the hall.
Tatoeba #176719
問題は、この必要な隔たりを埋めるのが知覚であるという点にある。
The problem lies in the fact that the necessary gap is bridged by perception.
Tatoeba #79857

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 埋める

Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionary埋めるうめる umeru
Polite (~masu)埋めますうめます umemasu
Negative埋めないうめない umenai
Polite negative埋めませんうめません umemasen
Past埋めたうめた umeta
Polite past埋めましたうめました umemashita
Negative past埋めなかったうめなかった umenakatta
Te-form埋めてうめて umete
Potential埋められるうめられる umerareru
Passive埋められるうめられる umerareru
Causative埋めさせるうめさせる umesaseru
Volitional埋めよううめよう umeyou
Imperative埋めろうめろ umero
Conditional (~ba)埋めればうめれば umereba

Kanji in 埋める

埋
bury, be filled up, embeddedマイ・う.める・う.まる · 10 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 埋める.

埋まるうまるto be buried埋蔵まいぞうburying in the ground埋め込むうめこむto bury

Source: JMdict entry 1524500 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.