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帽子 and 手袋: verbs for wearing hats and gloves

Choose verbs suited to items worn on the head and hands.

Putting on a hat

帽子 (ぼうし) means hat. 「帽子をかぶりました」 means putting on a hat.

「帽子を脱いでください」 asks someone to take off their hat. Pair かぶる for putting it on with 脱ぐ for taking it off.

Putting on gloves

手袋 (てぶくろ) means gloves. 「手袋をはめました」 means putting gloves on.

「手袋をしたまま書きました」 says the speaker wrote while still wearing gloves. したまま preserves the wearing state.

Items and quantities

「帽子はありますが、手袋がありません」 says there is a hat but no gloves. It does not exclude every cold-weather item.

「手袋を片方なくしました」 means losing one glove. Distinguish one member of a pair from the whole pair.

Were both gloves lost in 「手袋を片方なくしました」?

Show the answer and why

No. 片方 specifies only one of the pair.

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