3 thoughts on “かえる

  1. 変える=前の性質や状態などを違うものにする
    返る=もとの所・状態に戻る
    代える=別のものに代わりをさせる
    帰る=go home
    還る=go around and go back home
    then there’s the potential forms
    買える=can buy
    飼える=can have as pet
    and everybody’s favourite
    孵る=to hatch

  2. Heh, thanks. I was thinking mostly of 組み替える and 組み換える when I made the post.

  3. The way I always use to remember this one, 替える, is to observe the repetition of the husband like radicals at the top. It is almost as if the implication is that one is replaced for the other.

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