冷えます（ひえます、hiemasu）
- to get cold

The Japanese verb 冷えます (pronounced hiemasu) means "to get cold," "to become cold," or "to feel cold." It describes a change in temperature, making something or someone colder. It often refers to a decrease in temperature, either in the surrounding environment or affecting a person or object directly. 冷えます usually implies a passive change, where something becomes cold due to external factors, rather than a deliberate action of cooling something down.

⚫︎部屋が冷えました。 Translation: The room has gotten cold. ⚫︎手が冷えてきました。 Translation: My hands have started to get cold. ⚫︎スープが冷えます。 Translation: The soup will get cold.

⚫︎You can use 冷えます to talk about the weather getting colder. ⚫︎You can also use it to describe how something like food or a drink loses heat and becomes cold. ⚫︎冷えます can also express the feeling of becoming cold, as in feeling a chill. ⚫︎It is often used when the temperature is decreasing from a warmer state to a colder one. ⚫︎It is typically used in polite, formal language. When speaking to friends, family and so on, it is more common to use the plain form of the verb, which is 冷える.

⚫︎The verb 冷えます is written in hiragana as ひえます. ⚫︎The kanji form is 冷えます, which uses the kanji 冷 (rei) meaning "cold" or "cool" and the verb ending えます. ⚫︎The basic form is 冷える (ひえる).

⚫︎寒くなります (さむくなります) - to become cold (used for general temperature changes) ⚫︎冷たくなる (つめたくなる) - to become cold (describing something touching getting cold) ⚫︎冷める (さめる) - to cool down (used for objects, like food or drinks).

⚫︎暖かくなります (あたたかくなります) - to become warm ⚫︎温まります (あたたまります) - to get warm/to warm up ⚫︎熱くなる (あつくなる) - to become hot

今日は雨が降って、とても冷えますね。 ・Translation: It's raining today, and it's very cold, isn't it? ・Explanation: This sentence uses 冷えます to describe the feeling of coldness caused by the rain.

時間が経つにつれて、コーヒーが冷えます。 ・Translation: The coffee will cool down as time passes. ・Explanation: This sentence illustrates how an object, in this case, coffee, becomes cold over time.

The kanji 冷 (rei) is the root, meaning "cold". The verb stem え is added to this kanji to create the verb. The "masu" form, 冷えます (冷えます) is the polite form of the verb.