Translation guide
How to express 'clear up' in Japanese, covering weather clearing, tidying up, resolving problems, and clearing misunderstandings.
The sky or weather becomes clear after being cloudy or rainy.
The most common and natural way to say the weather clears up. Used for the sky becoming sunny.
The rain stopped and the sky cleared up.
It will clear up tomorrow.
Literally 'the weather recovers'. Used when the weather improves after being bad, often in forecasts.
The weather is expected to clear up in the afternoon.
To make a place neat by removing clutter or mess.
The standard verb for tidying up a room, desk, etc. Transitive: you clear up something.
Please clear up your room.
Intransitive: the room gets tidied up. Used when the subject is the place itself.
To organize, sort out, or put in order. More about systematic arrangement than just removing clutter.
It took half a day to clear up the documents.
To solve a problem, remove doubts, or clarify a misunderstanding.
To solve or resolve a problem, issue, or dispute. The most direct equivalent for 'clear up' in this sense.
I want to clear up the problem quickly.
We talked to clear up the misunderstanding.
Specifically for clearing up a misunderstanding. '解く' means to untie or resolve.
To make clear, clarify, or shed light on something. Used for clearing up facts or doubts.
Could you clear up that point?
A rash, infection, or symptom disappears or gets better.
Intransitive: to heal or get better. Used for rashes, colds, etc. clearing up on their own.
It took a few days for the rash to clear up.
Transitive: to cure or heal something. You clear up a condition through treatment.
To disappear. Used when a rash or symptom vanishes completely.
片付ける focuses on putting things away and making a space tidy, while 整理する emphasizes sorting and organizing items systematically. For general tidying, 片付ける is more common.
The English phrase 'clear up' is not used as a loanword in Japanese. Always use the appropriate Japanese verb depending on context.
I cleared up my desk.
部屋がきれいに片付いた。
The room got cleared up nicely.
It took time to clear up his misunderstanding.
I cleared up the symptoms with medicine.
The itching cleared up.