飲む

• 読み: のむ
• ローマ字: nomu
• 漢字の分解: 飲 (in/no) — to drink
• 発音: /no.mɯ/

意味

To drink; to swallow; to take (medicine). A fundamental verb for daily consumption.

A Group 1 (godan) transitive verb with an m-stem (飲ま, 飲み, 飲む, 飲め, 飲も). Besides drinking liquids, it is also the standard verb for taking medicine (薬を飲む). The te-form is 飲んで (with ん sound change typical of m-stem verbs).

例文

1. 毎日水をたくさん飲みます。
2. コーヒーを飲みながら新聞を読んだ。
3. 薬を飲んでから寝てください。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, restaurants, medicine

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese nomu. The kanji 飲 combines 食 (food/eat) with 欠 (yawn/open mouth), representing the act of opening the mouth to consume liquid.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal