To Add, To Include
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 add and this word is the verb version of that: to add. This is a transitive verb, meaning that you are doing the adding to something else. You add a nose to your snowman, for example.
くわえる
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: You decide to add something and then to add something else, and you end up with quite a quantity (くわ) of things. Just keep adding and adding forever. What a huge QUANTITY you now have!
ここで少し塩を加えると味が引き立ちます。
Adding a little salt here enhances the flavor.
このアプリを使うと、動画にアニメを加えることができます。
This application allows you to add animation to your videos.
何事も一手間加えるだけで、グッと良くなるものなんですよね。
Adding just a little extra effort can greatly improve anything, you know.