How to say "produce" in Japanese

• 作るつくるJLPT N5approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbThe everyday word for the basic sense of produce: making or manufacturing things, from meals to goods. When you would say make or build in English, this is usually the word you want.
  どこへ行いっても、彼かれは必かならず友達ともだちを作つくる。↗

  Wherever he may go, he is sure to make friends.
• 生ずるしょうずるJLPT N2approx.Common
  ichidan verb (-zuru), transitive verbMatches produce in the sense of yielding or causing: a result, effect, or change arises. The focus is on something coming into being, not on making objects.
• 取り出すとりだすJLPT N2approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbThis is really take out or pick out: it covers produce only in the sense of bringing something out and showing it, as when a person produces a ticket from a pocket.
  もう一ひとつの面白おもしろいエネルギー源えねるぎーげんは、放射能ほうしゃのうの廃棄はいき物質ぶっしつから取り出とりだせる熱ねつである。↗

  Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.
• 生み出すうみだすCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbCovers produce as creating or bringing forth something new — ideas, works, results come into being. The nuance is of giving birth to something that did not exist before.
  このことがよい人間関係にんげんかんけいを生うみだす。↗

  This makes good human relations.
• 作り出すつくりだすCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbCovers produce as manufacture — turning out goods — and also the raising of crops. The nuance is of actively producing or bringing forth products, as a factory or farm does.

Choose 「作る」 for simply making or manufacturing things, 「生み出す」 for bringing new things into existence, 「作り出す」 for turning out goods or crops, 「生ずる」 for producing or causing results, and 「取り出す」 only for producing something by taking it out.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 作るつくるto make
• 生ずるしょうずるto produce
• 取り出すとりだすto take out
• 生み出すうみだすto create
• 作り出すつくりだすto manufacture
• プロデュースto produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.)
• 発するはっするto let out
• 産物さんぶつproduct
• 醸し出すかもしだすto create (an atmosphere, feeling, etc.)
• 生じるしょうじるto produce
• 青果せいかfruits and vegetables
• 作り込むつくりこむto make (with great attention to detail)
• 生産物せいさんぶつproduct
• 作するさくするto make
• きたすto cause
• 作物さくもつcrop
• 生むうむto produce
• もたらすto bring about
• 起こすおこすto cause
• 組むくむto put together
• 産するさんするto produce
• 産すさんすto produce
• 出すだすto produce (a sound)