How to say "store" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 店みせnounThe general word for a shop or store: a place that sells goods or serves food, covering restaurants and other establishments as well. This is what you use for 'store' in most retail contexts.
- 店てんnoun (suffix)The same character with the reading てん, which appears inside compounds rather than as an independent word; you cannot use it by itself to say 'store' — for that, the standalone word is みせ.
- nounA loanword from English 'store', used for retail stores in the American sense; its use is much narrower than 店's, so it is seldom the word you reach for when you simply mean a shop.
- 店舗てんぽnounA word for a shop or store viewed as a commercial premises or establishment; it suits discussion of shops as businesses or pieces of property rather than simply naming a place to shop.
- 溜めるためるichidan verb, transitive verbThe verb sense of 'store': to amass or accumulate something — water, goods, savings — keeping it stored up over time. It describes an action, not a place, so it never refers to a shop.
For 'store' as a place that sells things, use 店（みせ）; てん is its compound reading, 「ストア」 a narrow loanword, and 店舗 a premises-oriented word; for the verb 'to store', use 「溜める」.
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Japanese equivalents
- 店みせstore
- 店てんstore
- ストアstore
- 店舗てんぽshop
- 溜めるためるto amass
- 商店しょうてんshop
- 蓄えるたくわえるto store
- 蓄積ちくせきaccumulation
- 蓄えたくわえstore
- お店おみせstore
- 舗ほshop
- 商家しょうかmerchant
- 収めるおさめるto put (into)
- 売店ばいてんstand
- 屋やshop
- 店屋みせやstore
- 蔵するぞうするto store
- 市肆ししstore
- 販売店はんばいてんstore
- 商舗しょうほshop
- 商屋あきないやshop
- 書き込むかきこむto store
- しまうto put away
- 店たなstore
- 店棚みせだなstore
- 取り置くとりおくto put in
- 囲うかこうto store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)
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