Pile up in Japanese 🇯🇵

つもる info.

Tips to remember the Japanese word:
– Think of snow piling up, which is a common imagery in Japanese, and the word "tsumoru" is often associated with it.

Explanations:
– "つもる" (tsumoru) means to accumulate or to pile up. It can be used for both physical objects and abstract concepts like work or emotions.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– 蓄積する (ちくせきする, chikuseki suru) – to accumulate, especially in a more formal or scientific context.
– 重なる (かさなる, kasanaru) – to stack, to overlap, often used for layers or repeated actions.

Conjugations:
– Present Plain: つもる (tsumoru) – accumulate
– Present Polite: つもります (tsumorimasu) – accumulate
– Past Plain: つもった (tsumotta) – accumulated
– Past Polite: つもりました (tsumorimaa) – accumulated
– Negative Plain: つもらない (tsumoranai) – do not accumulate
– Negative Polite: つもりません (tsumorimasen) – do not accumulate
– Present Progressive: つもっている (tsumotte iru) – accumulating
– Volitional: つもろう (tsumorou) – let's accumulate

Examples of sentences that use it:
– 雪がたくさんつもった。
(Yuki ga takusan tsumotta.)
A lot of snow has piled up.

– 仕事がどんどんつもっていきます。
(Shigoto ga dondon tsumotte ikimasu.)
Work is piling up rapidly.

– 彼女の悩みが何年もつもり続けた。
(Kanojo no nayami ga nannen mo tsumoritsuzuketa.)
Her worries accumulated over many years.

– つもらないように毎日片付けましょう。
(Tsumoranai you ni mainichi katazukemashou.)
Let's clean up every day to avoid piling up.

– 明日からまた雪がつもるでしょう。
(Aa kara mata yuki ga tsumoru deshou.)
It will probably start accumulating snow again tomorrow.

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