I Love Kanji濁る (nigoru)
濁る (にごる, nigoru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to become muddy; to become cloudy”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- にごる
- Romaji
- nigoru
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become turbid; to become impure (of a liquid or gas) · godan verb, intransitive
- to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become fuzzy; to become hoarse · godan verb, intransitive
- to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted; to be polluted · godan verb, intransitive
- to become voiced (of a consonant); to be pronounced as a voiced sound · godan verb, intransitive
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 濁る
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 濁る | にごる nigoru |
| Polite (~masu) | 濁ります | にごります nigorimasu |
| Negative | 濁らない | にごらない nigoranai |
| Polite negative | 濁りません | にごりません nigorimasen |
| Past | 濁った | にごった nigotta |
| Polite past | 濁りました | にごりました nigorimashita |
| Negative past | 濁らなかった | にごらなかった nigoranakatta |
| Te-form | 濁って | にごって nigotte |
| Potential | 濁れる | にごれる nigoreru |
| Passive | 濁られる | にごられる nigorareru |
| Causative | 濁らせる | にごらせる nigoraseru |
| Volitional | 濁ろう | にごろう nigorou |
| Imperative | 濁れ | にごれ nigore |
| Conditional (~ba) | 濁れば | にごれば nigoreba |
Kanji in 濁る
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 濁る.
清濁せいだくgood and evil
Source: JMdict entry 1415960 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.