重なる

• 読み: かさなる
• ローマ字: kasanaru
• 漢字の分解: 重 (kasa/jū) — heavy, pile up, overlap
• 発音: /ka.sa.na.ɾɯ/

意味

To be piled up; to lie on top of one another. Things overlapping or coinciding.

A Group 1 (godan) intransitive verb ending in る. Describes things stacking on top of each other physically (papers, layers) or events coinciding in time (schedules overlapping, misfortunes piling up). Often used with 不幸が重なる (misfortunes pile up) or 予定が重なる (schedules overlap). Paired with the transitive form 重ねる.

例文

1. 今月は予定が重なって忙しい。
2. 机の上に書類が重なっていた。
3. 悪いことが重なると気持ちが落ち込む。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, scheduling, emotions

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From the kanji 重 (jū/omo/kasa, heavy/pile) with the intransitive ending なる. The kanji depicts a heavy object being carried, suggesting layers of weight.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal