剝ける

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 剝ける, read むける, is an intransitive verb meaning that paint or skin peels or comes off.
• Basic usage: 塗装が剝けてきた shows peeling beginning and progressing; 皮は剝ける states that boiled skin comes off easily.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Emerging change and general peelability
  • The material that comes off is marked by が or topical は, not treated as the object of a transitive action; てきた adds an unfolding change.