Illustration: Morning light enters a modest bedroom where a young adult lies beneath a rumpled duvet. Their eyes have just opened, one still narrower than the other, and their mouth hangs slightly open with lingering sleepiness. A cat sits squarely on their chest, touching their cheek with one patient paw.

JLPT N3expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

目めが覚さめる

me ga sameru

to wake up

Example sentences

  1. 目めが覚さめたばっかり？

    Did you just wake up?

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  2. 彼かれは早はやく目めが覚さめる。

    He wakes up early.

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  3. 目めが覚さめると病院びょういんだった。

    I woke up in the hospital.

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Kanji in 目覚

  • 目eyeOnモク・ボクKunめ・ま-
  • 覚remember; learnOnカクKunおぼえる・さます・さめる

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