～込む: How to *really* do something

Introduction

These next two lessons will be all about smashing verb stems together with other verbs to form so-called "compound verbs".

We'll be starting off with 込こむ, which can be a bit tricky to wrap your head around at first, but once mastered, opens up a whole new world of verbular vocabulary. That's a word right? Verbular?

～込こむ: Verbs that go in-depth

構成こうせい

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  Verb stem込こむ
  Example:
  → 急きゅうに走はしり込こんできた。
  "(They) suddenly came running in.”

～込こむ has a multitude of meanings.

On its own, 「込こむ」 can mean "to be crowded" or "to put into". When we combine it with another verb though... the possibilities are endless!