ぬかるむ Meaning and Use


ぬかるむ has the definition of "to be muddy" in my dictionary, but it is a verb.
Furthermore, all the examples use it before a noun, as opposed to saying
丘はぬかるむ. Is it correct to say this? Why is ぬかるむ a verb, and not an adjective,
or rather can someone explain the possible mentality that went into ascribing
the characteristic of being muddy to being a verb as opposed to an adjective?




When you try to walk on a muddy road, the mud makes it difficult to walk
across. In other words, the muddy road is bothering you. ぬかるむ is a word
implicitly meaning "directly bothering".

Because hills do not directly bother you (maybe the road is what it's directly
bothering), 丘はぬかるむ is grammatically correct, but is a strange expression.

