咲く

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 咲く is read さく and means to bloom.
• Basic usage: It describes flowers opening in a garden or on a tree that was planted.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Subject and location
  • In 庭に花が咲く, が marks the flowers that bloom, and に marks where they bloom.
• Inflection
  • The past form is 咲いた.
  • The て-form is 咲いて.
  • 咲いている can describe flowers being in bloom.