Illustration: Outside a modest house in northern Japan, snow continues falling onto a bicycle parked beside the entrance. Thick rounded layers cover the saddle, basket, and handlebar grips, while only the upper edge of the front wheel remains clear above the drift.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

積つもる

tsumoru

to pile up, to accumulate

Example sentences

  1. 雪ゆきが地面じめんに厚あつく積つもっている。

    Snow lies thick on the ground.

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  2. 雪ゆきが深ふかくつもっていた。

    The snow lay deep.

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  3. 小道こみちに落おち葉ばが厚あつく積つもっていた。

    Leaves lay thick in the lane.

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Kanji in 積

  • 積volume; product (x*y)OnセキKunつむ・つもる・つもり

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