THE WORD · N5
かかる
take time or money
Verbe · Assistant · Group 1 verb
体重が気にかかる。
I'm worried about my weight.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: mookeee · French : sacredceltic
Parts of speech
Group 1 verb (godan) · Intransitive · Auxiliary verb
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Verb group: Group 1 (godan)
Verb usage: intransit
Other written forms: 掛かる
Close or Related Words
Dictionary references: they are not necessarily synonyms.
- お目にかかる — meet (somewhat higher status); be recognized (especially by a person of higher status); be visible Source
Same reading, another word
- 罹る — suffering from Word card → Source
English dictionary meanings
- to take (a resource, e.g. time or money)
- to hang
- to come into view
- to arrive
- to come under (a contract, a tax)
- to start (engines, motors)
- to attend
- to deal with
- to handle
- to have started to
- to be on the verge of
- to overlap (e.g. information in a manual)
- to cover
- to (come) at
- to be fastened
- to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
- to be caught in
- to get a call
- to depend on
- to begin (a task)
- to set about (doing)
- to get down to