Illustration: On the floor of a Japanese nursery room, a child is gathering scattered wooden blocks into a low wicker basket. One hand deposits a block onto the growing pile while the other reaches toward several pieces still spread beneath a small table. The basket already contains many blocks of the same set.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

集あつめる

atsumeru

to collect, to gather

Example sentences

趣味しゅみは切手きってを集あつめることです。
My hobby is collecting stamps.
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何なにか集あつめていますか。
Do you collect anything?
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彼かれは切手きってをたくさん集あつめた。
He collected a lot of stamps.
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Kanji in 集

集gather; meetOnシュウKunあつまる・あつめる・つどう

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