How to say "taking" in Japanese

• 攻略こうりゃくCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers 'taking' only in the military sense: capturing enemy territory or taking a stronghold by storm, i.e. conquest by attack. For any other kind of 'taking' this is not the word you want.
• 連行れんこうCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe 'taking' of a person by the authorities: taking a suspect to the police, dragging someone away. It applies to people being escorted or hauled off, not to objects.
  警察けいさつが容疑者ようぎしゃを尋問じんもんするために連行れんこうしていったよ。↗

  The police have hauled in a suspect for questioning.
• 履修りしゅうCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe academic sense: taking a class or course as part of one's studies and seeing it through to completion. It fits 'taking' only in the school or university context.
  単位たんい履修りしゅうの手続てつづきは終おえましたか。↗

  Did you finish your class registration?
• 購読こうどくJLPT N1approx.Common
  suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectiveHere 'taking' means subscribing: buying and reading a newspaper, magazine or similar publication regularly, including free subscriptions. For taking a physical object somewhere this is not the word.
  あなたは何なんか雑誌ざっしを購読こうどくしていますか。↗

  Do you subscribe to any magazines?
• 持参じさんJLPT N2approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers plain 'taking' in the sense of bringing or carrying something along with you when you go somewhere, the item travelling with the person. Typical of instructions asking you to bring or take something along.
  ほとんどの観光客かんこうきゃくがカメラを持参じさんしている。↗

  Almost every tourist carries a camera with him.

English 'taking' splits according to what is taken and how: territory by storm, a suspect into custody, a class at school, a newspaper by subscription, or an object carried along — match the word to the thing taken.

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• 攻略こうりゃくcapture (of enemy territory)
• 連行れんこうtaking (a suspect to the police)
• 履修りしゅうtaking (a class)
• 購読こうどくbuying and reading (book, magazine, etc.)
• 持参じさんbringing
• 引き取りひきとりtaking
• 取りとりtaking