Illustration: In a Japanese apartment bedroom, an adult lies weakly on a futon with flushed cheeks, a cooling cloth across the forehead, and shoulders propped against a pillow. They are awake but can barely lift one hand toward the cup a partner brings on a bedside tray.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

寝ね込こむ

nekomu

to be bedridden, to be laid up

Usually describes being confined to bed by illness. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

熱ねつで寝込ねこんでました。
Because of a fever I stayed in bed.
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彼かれは風邪かぜで寝込ねこんでいた。
He was in bed with a cold.
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あいつ、一週間いちしゅうかん寝込ねこんでたんだ。
He was in bed for a week.
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Kanji in 寝込

寝lie down; sleepOnシンKunねる・ねかす・いぬ
込crowded; mixtureKunこむ・こみ・こめる

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