To Collect Something
To Gather Something
transitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means collect and this verb is transitive, meaning the action is done to something or someone. So this verb means things like to collect something and to gather something.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
When you only have one thing, there's only one thing. Nothing is collected. But when you have two... "ah two!" (あつ). Now you're starting to collect something.
私は古いビー玉を集めるのが、すきです。
I like collecting old marbles.
全国から美しい花を集めて、手作りのブーケを作りました。
We collected beautiful flowers from all over the country and made handmade bouquets.
ユーザーからのフィードバックを集めています。
We are collecting feedback from users.