First opened Sunday, February 3, 2013
付け加える
つけくわえる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 5
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to add one thing to another
Tsukekuwaeru is 付け (tsuke, the stem of 付ける (tsukeru, “to attach”)) plus 加える (kuwaeru, “to add”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
もう１点付け加えてもいいですか。
May I add a point?
彼はお腹がすいていると付け加えた。
On top of everything else, he added that he was hungry.
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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.
- “From 付(つ)け (tsuke, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 付(つ)ける (tsukeru, “to attach”)) + 加(くわ)える (kuwaeru, “to add”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 付け加える (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).
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.