JLPT N1 · Verb

埋める (uzumeru)

埋める (うずめる, uzumeru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands)”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: うずめる
Romaji: uzumeru
Word class: Ichidan verb (る-verb)
Level: JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge · ichidan verb, transitive
to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack; to cram; to fill up · ichidan verb, transitive

Example sentences

けいこは枕に顔をうずめて泣いた。

Keiko buried her head in the pillow and cried.

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昨夜、約８万人の観衆がスタジアムをうずめた。

About eighty thousand spectators packed into the stadium last night.

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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.

Form	Japanese	Reading
Dictionary	埋める	うずめる uzumeru
Polite (~masu)	埋めます	うずめます uzumemasu
Negative	埋めない	うずめない uzumenai
Polite negative	埋めません	うずめません uzumemasen
Past	埋めた	うずめた uzumeta
Polite past	埋めました	うずめました uzumemashita
Negative past	埋めなかった	うずめなかった uzumenakatta
Te-form	埋めて	うずめて uzumete
Potential	埋められる	うずめられる uzumerareru
Passive	埋められる	うずめられる uzumerareru
Causative	埋めさせる	うずめさせる uzumesaseru
Volitional	埋めよう	うずめよう uzumeyou
Imperative	埋めろ	うずめろ uzumero
Conditional (~ba)	埋めれば	うずめれば uzumereba

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 1524490 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.