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着替える
きがえる
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to change (one's) clothes
To change clothes is to “put on” and “exchange” — with the かえる voicing to がえる.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Compound of 着 (ki, “putting on”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 着る kiru, “to put on”) + 替える (kaeru, “to substitute”). The kaeru changes to gaeru as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 着替える (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 着替える on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not きがえる. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
きかえる
- “Compound of 着 (ki, “putting on”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 着る kiru, “to put on”) + 替える (kaeru, “to substitute”).”
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).