1.
to become used to eating; to get accustomed to eating
to develop a taste for or comfort with eating a particular food through repeated experience
納豆は食べ慣れると美味しい。
Natto is delicious once you get used to eating it.
日本の食べ物に食べ慣れた。
I've gotten used to eating Japanese food.
辛いものは食べ慣れていないので苦手だ。
I'm not used to eating spicy food, so I don't handle it well.
COMPOUND VERB:
食べる (to eat) + 慣れる (to become accustomed)
CONJUGATION:
- 食べ慣れる (dictionary form)
- 食べ慣れた (past)
- 食べ慣れている (progressive - accustomed state)
- 食べ慣れていない (not accustomed)
PATTERN:
~慣れる compound verbs (become used to ~):
- 聞き慣れる - become used to hearing
- 住み慣れる - become used to living
- 見慣れる - become used to seeing
- 使い慣れる - become used to using
RELATED:
- 慣れる - to get used to
- 慣れ親しむ - to become familiar with