textbooks ruin 減る for no reason lol

Textbooks love to overcomplicate 減る by pairing it with 増える in those dumb vocab lists. No wonder you guys keep mixing them up. Real talk: every native just associates 減る with 'stomach getting empty' (腹が減る). It’s literally a one-second brain hack. If you are still grinding Anki decks trying to memorize the difference, you’re doing it wrong. Throw away the Genki book and just vibe with it.