To Get Dry
To Become Dry, To Be Dried
intransitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means dry, so this verb vocab version means to get dry. You're not doing the drying here — it's happening on its own. To remember this, just think about how cool (く) it is that something can become dry all by itself. It's just, like, the magic of nature — how cool is that?
The 川 (かわ) has started to get dry. Need to use less water around here otherwise it'll become completely dry.
洗濯物はまだ乾いていません。
Our laundry hasn't dried yet.
プランターの土が乾いてきたので水をやりました。
The soil in the planter was getting dry, so I gave it some water.
「足を三発撃たれたみたいだ」と、ビエトは乾いた声で言った。
"Looks like I got shot in the leg three times," Viet said in a dry voice.