Illustration: At a Japanese apartment dining table, a resident finally returns to a bowl of soup after soothing a baby now asleep against their shoulder. The untouched soup has no rising steam, a thin film has formed on its surface, and small fat droplets have begun to congeal.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

冷さめる

sameru

to cool down, to get cold

Example sentences

  1. スープは冷さめていない。

    The soup is not cool.

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  2. 料理りょうりが冷さめてしまっています。

    The food is cold.

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  3. 食たべ物ものが冷さめます。

    The food is getting cold.

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Kanji in 冷

  • 冷cool; cold (beer, person)OnレイKunつめたい・ひえる・さめる

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