煮える

• 読み: にえる
• ローマ字: nieru
• 漢字の分解: 煮 (sha/ni) — boil, cook, simmer
• 発音: /ni.e.ɾɯ/

意味

To boil; to be cooked by simmering. Food becoming ready through heat in liquid.

A Group 2 (ichidan) intransitive verb conjugated by dropping る (煮えない, 煮えます). The intransitive pair of 煮る (to cook/boil something). Used when food is being cooked in liquid: 野菜が煮えた (the vegetables are cooked). Also appears in the idiom 煮えたぎる (to seethe) and 業を煮やす (to lose patience). Common in Japanese home cooking where simmered dishes (煮物) are a staple.

例文

1. 大根がやわらかく煮えるまで待ってください。
2. カレーの野菜がまだ煮えていないようだ。
3. お鍋の中のお肉がちょうどよく煮えた。

使い方ガイド

場面: cooking, home life, recipes

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 煮 combines 者 (person, here phonetic) and 灬 (fire at the bottom), depicting cooking over a flame — boiling or simmering food.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal