Translation guide
How to express improvement, recovery, or surpassing a previous state in Japanese.
To become more skilled or proficient at something.
The most common way to say 'get better' at a skill or activity. Literally 'become skillful'.
My Japanese has gotten better.
I want to get better at cooking.
A slightly more formal verb meaning 'to improve' or 'make progress' in a skill.
My piano playing has gotten better.
An idiomatic expression meaning 'to improve one's skills', literally 'to raise one's arm'. Often used for crafts or sports.
He got better at cooking.
To become healthy again after being sick or hurt.
For a situation, product, or state to become better.
To exceed a previous standard or another person.
Use with a point of comparison to say 'get better than ~'.
Do not translate 'get better' word-for-word as '得るより良い' or similar. It is not natural Japanese.
良くなる is a general 'become good' and can be used for health, weather, skills, etc. 治る is specifically for healing from illness or injury. Use 治る when you want to emphasize recovery from a specific ailment.
Get better soon.
An intransitive verb meaning 'to heal' or 'to be cured'. Used for illnesses or injuries.
My injury got better.
A formal term for 'recover', used for health or condition.
My condition has gotten better.
The quality got better.
A formal verb meaning 'to improve' or 'to ameliorate', often used in business or technical contexts.
The situation got better.
A casual expression meaning 'to become better than before', often implying it was bad but is now tolerable.
It's gotten better than before.
My grades got better than last year.