はげる
Hageru
Usually written in kana.
Also read: ハゲる
禿げる (Hageru) is a Japanese ichidan verb meaning “to lose hair, to become bald, to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)”.
Meanings
- ichidan verb, intransitive verbto lose hair; to become bald
- ichidan verb, intransitive verbto become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
Examples
父は頭がはげてきている。
My father is getting bald.
あんまり心配すると禿げるよ。
Don't worry too much, or you'll go bald.
私は、若いうちに禿げたくない。
I don't want to go bald when I'm still young.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).