かえる
Learned yesterday at work:
換える＝別の物におきかえる
替える＝別の新しいものにする
And I already knew this one:
蛙＝frog
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
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
March 28th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Heh, thanks. I was thinking mostly of 組み替える and 組み換える when I made the post.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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.