壊れる

こわれる · kowareru · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan

to break

💔 kowa-reru: a COW-a wrecks it, so now it is broken

壊れる is intransitive: the thing breaks by itself (the phone broke). Its transitive partner is 壊す kowasu, to break something. The -reru ending marks the it-happened-on-its-own form, as in 倒れる and 汚れる.

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