Cold medicine in Japanese 🇯🇵

かぜ ぐすり info.

Tips to remember the Japanese word:
– Imagine a gust of wind (かぜ, "kaze") making you feel cold and ill.
– Picture taking medicine (ぐすり, "gusuri") to feel better from the cold/flu.

Explanations:
– かぜ (kaze): Wind, but also used to mean a common cold/flu.
– ぐすり (gusuri): Medicine or drug. When combined with かぜ, it specifies medicine for treating a cold.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– かぜ薬 (かぜぐすり, kaze gusuri): Cold medicine (common term)
– 感冒薬 (かんぼうやく, kanbō yaku): Another term for cold medicine (literary/medical context)

Alternate meanings like slang:
– The individual words can have other meanings:
– かぜ (kaze) is also the general term for wind.
– ぐすり (gusuri) is a general term for any kind of medicine, not limited to cold remedies.

Examples of sentences that use it:
1. かぜをひいたので、かぜぐすりをのみました。
– Kaze o hīta node, kaze gusuri o nomimaa.
– Because I caught a cold, I took some cold medicine.

2. コンビニで、かぜぐすりを買えますか？
– Konbini de, kaze gusuri o kaemasu ka?
– Can I buy cold medicine at the convenience store?

3. 冬になると、よくかぜぎすりが必要になります。
– Fuyu ni naru to, yoku kaze gusuri ga hitsuyō ni narimasu.
– In winter, cold medicine is often needed.

4. このかぜぐすりは眠くなりませんか？
– Kono kaze gusuri wa nemukunarimasen ka?
– Does this cold medicine not make you drowsy?

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