出現|しゅつげんshutsugen[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbappearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
    そうした高層こうそうビルが出現しゅつげんする前まえは、町まちの全すべての建物たてものが相互そうごに特別とくべつな関係かんけいを持もって建たっていたのである。↗
    Before the arrival of this skyscraper, all the buildings in the city stood in special relationship to each other.
Conjugation
Dictionary form出現する(しゅつげんする)
Polite (masu)出現します(しゅつげんします)
Negative (nai)出現しない(しゅつげんしない)
polite (masen)出現しません(しゅつげんしません)
classical zu / nu出現せず・出現せぬ(しゅつげんせず・しゅつげんせぬ)
Past (ta)出現した(しゅつげんした)
polite (mashita)出現しました(しゅつげんしました)
Past negative (nakatta)出現しなかった(しゅつげんしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)出現しませんでした(しゅつげんしませんでした)
Te form出現して(しゅつげんして)
Potential出現できる(しゅつげんできる)
Passive出現される(しゅつげんされる)
Causative出現させる(しゅつげんさせる)
Causative passive出現させられる(しゅつげんさせられる)
Conditional (ba)出現すれば(しゅつげんすれば)
tara出現したら(しゅつげんしたら)
Volitional出現しよう(しゅつげんしよう)
polite (mashou)出現しましょう(しゅつげんしましょう)
Imperative出現しろ(しゅつげんしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym現れるあらわれるNeutralNative verb for appearing, showing up, or becoming manifest; the most common of these words. 「出現」 is the Sino-Japanese word, more written in tone; 「出現する」 also works.
  • Synonym発現はつげんWrittenWritten: something hidden manifesting itself; in biology, gene or protein expression. 「出現」 is more general.
  • Synonym発生はっせいNeutralFor accidents, incidents, or phenomena occurring. 「出現」 leans toward people or things appearing.
  • Synonym現れあらわれNeutralA manifestation or embodiment, as in 「誠意の現れ」. 「出現」 refers to the act of appearing itself.
  • Synonym現出げんしゅつWrittenWritten: appearing or emerging into view. In everyday speech, say 「出現」.
  • Synonym現れ出るあらわれでるWrittenWritten: emerging from hiding into view; 「出現」 is more common.
  • Synonym立ち現れるたちあらわれるWrittenWritten and literary: a figure or image rising into view. 「出現」 is more common and fits both concrete and abstract things.
  • Related登場とうじょうNeutralDebut or entrance on the scene, as in 「新製品の登場」; stresses a new thing or person making an appearance. 「出現」 is broader and need not imply a debut.
  • Related出来しゅったいWrittenWritten; as 「しゅったい」 it means events occurring, and also completion. 「出現」 centers on things or phenomena appearing.
  • Related生起せいきWrittenWritten word for phenomena or events occurring. 「出現」 centers on things appearing rather than events happening.
  • Antonym消滅しょうめつWrittenWritten: vanishing, dying out, or being wiped out; the opposite of 「出現」.
  • Antonym隠れるかくれるNeutralTo hide or go out of sight; the opposite of 「出現」.

Use 「出現」 or 「出現する」 for new things, people, or phenomena appearing, as in 「新人の出現」. For a debut or launch use 「登場」; in native Japanese, say 「現れる」; for phenomena occurring, use 「発生」. The opposites are 「消滅」 and 「隠れる」.

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

Japanese definitions
  1. 現れ出あらわれでること。
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