Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, an adult pauses halfway through hanging a bedsheet as a thick cloud bank advances across the sun. Only a narrowing bright opening remains beside the clouds, and the cloud shadow has reached most of the neighboring rooftops.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

曇くもる

kumoru

to become cloudy

Example sentences

今日きょうは曇くもっている。
It is cloudy today.
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突然とつぜん、空そらが曇くもってきた。
All of a sudden, it became cloudy.
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曇くもってきた。
It’s getting cloudy.
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Kanji in 曇

曇cloudy weather; cloud upOnドンKunくもる

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