伝播|でんぱdenpa[1]atamadaka (head-high)
でんぱんdenpan[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbtransmission; propagation; spread; circulation; diffusion; dissemination
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 伝播する（でんぱする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 伝播します（でんぱします） |
| Negative (nai) | 伝播しない（でんぱしない） |
| polite (masen) | 伝播しません（でんぱしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 伝播せず・伝播せぬ（でんぱせず・でんぱせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 伝播した（でんぱした） |
| polite (mashita) | 伝播しました（でんぱしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 伝播しなかった（でんぱしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 伝播しませんでした（でんぱしませんでした） |
| Te form | 伝播して（でんぱして） |
| Potential | 伝播できる（でんぱできる） |
| Passive | 伝播される（でんぱされる） |
| Causative | 伝播させる（でんぱさせる） |
| Causative passive | 伝播させられる（でんぱさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 伝播すれば（でんぱすれば） |
| tara | 伝播したら（でんぱしたら） |
| Volitional | 伝播しよう（でんぱしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 伝播しましょう（でんぱしましょう） |
| Imperative | 伝播しろ（でんぱしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym流布るふWrittenWritten/formal: sayings and books circulating through society, as in 「流布本」; stresses spreading far and wide.
- Synonym伝染でんせんNeutralDisease passing from one person to another, also figuratively of emotions or trends catching on; typically about illness.
- Synonym広まるひろまるNeutralVerb: something spreading and becoming common; an everyday word, typically for news or customs.
- Synonym伝わるつたわるNeutralVerb: being conveyed or handed down; stresses reaching a place or being passed on to later generations.
- Synonym蔓延まんえんNeutralDiseases or bad habits spreading; negative in tone, more pessimistic than 「伝播」.
- Synonym行き渡るいきわたるNeutralVerb: spreading until it reaches everyone; stresses being distributed with nothing left out.
- Synonym伝搬でんぱんWrittenWritten/formal: transmission of radio waves and signals, mostly in communications engineering; 「伝播」 can mean radio waves, but also the spread of culture and ideas.
- Related広がるひろがるNeutralVerb: a range or area growing and spreading out; the most colloquial of these, and it can be physical space.
- Related普及ふきゅうNeutralNew technology or products coming into wide use; stresses becoming universal, without reference to a transmission route.
- Related拡散かくさんNeutralSpreading out in all directions; also online reposting, as in 「拡散希望」.
- Related波及はきゅうNeutralInfluence spreading outward like ripples to other areas; stresses chain-reaction effects.
- Related散布さんぷNeutralScattering things about, e.g. spraying pesticide or seeds carried by the wind; stresses strewing in all directions.
- Related浸透しんとうNeutralIdeas or values permeating people's minds, or liquids soaking in; stresses depth of penetration.
- Related染み渡るしみわたるWrittenWritten/formal verb: permeating into every corner, mostly of water or of a moving feeling that soaks into the heart.
- Antonym収束しゅうそくNeutralAntonym: a situation settling or being brought under control, the opposite of 「伝播」's ongoing spread.
「伝播」 is for culture, technology, radio waves etc. travelling from one place to another. For radio-wave transmission 「伝搬」 also works; in everyday speech say 「広まる」 or 「伝わる」; for a disease spreading use 「蔓延」. 「普及」 covers wide adoption, 「拡散」 scattering or online reposts, 「波及」 ripple effects, 「浸透」 ideas sinking in, 「散布」 physical strewing; 「収束」 is the opposite.
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