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汚れる (よごれる, yogoreru) Japanese meaning: get dirty | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N4 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 汚れる · ichidan verb
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 汚よご れる 汚よご れない Polite 汚よご れます 汚よご れません Past polite 汚よご れました 汚よご れませんでした Past 汚よご れた 汚よご れなかった Te-form 汚よご れて 汚よご れないで Desire 汚よご れたい 汚よご れたくない Potential 汚よご れられる also 汚よご れれる 汚よご れられない also 汚よご れれない Passive 汚よご れられる 汚よご れられない Causative 汚よご れさせる 汚よご れさせない Causative passive 汚よご れさせられる 汚よご れさせられない Volitional 汚よご れよう Polite volitional 汚よご れましょう Imperative 汚よご れろ 汚よご れるな Conditional 汚よご れれば 汚よご れなければ Tara conditional 汚よご れたら 汚よご れなかったら
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White shirts get dirty quickly.
My shoes got dirty from the rain.
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 が 〈 物もの 〉 で 汚よご れる for something to get dirty from a substance
My shoes got dirty with mud.
名めい 誉よ が 汚よご れる for one's honor or reputation to be tarnished
His reputation was tarnished by the incident.
手て が 汚よご れる to get one's hands dirty (also fig. to be involved in dishonest dealings)
By getting involved in that job, he got his hands dirty.
心こころ が 汚よご れる for one's heart or mind to become corrupted
His heart became corrupted for the sake of money.
Kanji 汚 dirty, pollute, disgrace Transitive / intransitive Related words· 6 汚損する is a formal, written-register word for things becoming soiled or damaged, whereas 汚れる is the everyday verb for the same physical result.
堕落する describes moral or personal degeneration over time, while 汚れる (in its figurative sense) can describe a single act tainting one's purity or reputation.
汚れる means to become dirty or morally corrupted in a general sense, while 染まる (figurative) specifically emphasizes being deeply steeped in or permeated by a particular influence, often negative.
汚れる is the general verb for something becoming dirty, while まみれる specifically emphasizes being thickly covered or smeared with a substance like mud, blood, or sweat.
Show 2 more 濁る specifically means a liquid or gas becomes cloudy or turbid, while 汚れる more generally means something becomes dirty or stained.
汚れる is the intransitive verb meaning 'to become dirty', whereas 汚い is the adjective describing the resulting dirty state.
Word family· 8 dirt; filth; stain; blot; spot
villain role; bad-guy role; social outcast role
dirty things; soiled items
oil stain; grease stain
Written forms 汚よご れる Usage 91%
Standard kanji spelling for physical and figurative soiling.
よごれる Usage 9%
Kana spelling is common in casual writing and when the kanji is not needed.
Etymology Derived from the adjective 汚い (きたない, 'dirty') with the intransitive verb suffix 〜れる, indicating a change of state. The kanji 汚 carries meanings of dirtiness and defilement.
dirty work; unpleasant task
Show 3 more stainproofing; contamination prevention
get slightly dirty; become a little soiled
stain removal; getting stains out
