How to say "train" in Japanese

• 電車でんしゃJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounThe vehicle sense: an electric train, the kind you ride to work or school. This is the word for taking the train, never for the verb 'to train'.
  あなたは始発しはつ電車でんしゃに間まにあいましたか。↗

  Did you catch the first train?
• 列車れっしゃJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounAlso a vehicle word, but for a railway train as a scheduled run of coupled cars — the term of timetables and station announcements; for the train you ride daily, 電車 is the usual choice.
  この列車れっしゃは東京とうきょう行いきです。↗

  This train is bound for Tokyo.
• 仕込むしこむCommon
  godan verb, transitive verbA verb: to train a person by teaching and drilling skills into them over time, as with an apprentice or a successor. It is about educating people, not vehicles.
  この猿さるは、きちんと仕込しこめばいろいろな芸げいができるようになるだろう。↗

  The monkey, trained properly, will be able to do a lot of tricks.
• 慣らすならすJLPT N1approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbA verb, but only in the accustoming sense: to train one's ear, for example, is to get it used to a sound or language. It is not about teaching skills to a person.
• 裾すそJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounNot a vehicle or verb at all: this noun means the hem or bottom of a garment. As 'train' it applies only to a dress — the trailing bottom part of a long gown.
  カレンの裾すそが捲まくれている。↗

  Karen's skirt is riding up.

For the vehicle, 電車 is the electric train you ride to work and 列車 a railway train as a scheduled run; for the verb, 「仕込む」 trains people in skills while 「慣らす」 accustoms; 裾 is a dress's trailing hem.

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

• 電車でんしゃtrain
• 列車れっしゃtrain
• 仕込むしこむto train
• 慣らすならすto accustom
• 裾すそhem
• 育て上げるそだてあげるto raise (to maturity)
• トレインtrain
• しつけるto train
• 裳裾もすそcuff (of pants)
• 撓めるためるto bend
• 使い慣らすつかいならすto accustom oneself to using
• 練習を積むれんしゅうをつむto practice
• 育てるそだてるto train
• 鍛えるきたえるto drill
• 練るねるto train
• 仕立てるしたてるto train
• 作るつくるto raise
• しつけるto train
• 金輪かなわtrain wheel
• 汽車きしゃ(long-distance) train
• しぼるto drill into
• もむto train