助長|じょちょうjochou[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, transitive verbpromotion; encouragement; fostering; furtherance
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbunwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful); unnecessary help; disservice
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 助長する(じょちょうする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 助長します(じょちょうします) |
| Negative (nai) | 助長しない(じょちょうしない) |
| polite (masen) | 助長しません(じょちょうしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 助長せず・助長せぬ(じょちょうせず・じょちょうせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 助長した(じょちょうした) |
| polite (mashita) | 助長しました(じょちょうしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 助長しなかった(じょちょうしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 助長しませんでした(じょちょうしませんでした) |
| Te form | 助長して(じょちょうして) |
| Potential | 助長できる(じょちょうできる) |
| Passive | 助長される(じょちょうされる) |
| Causative | 助長させる(じょちょうさせる) |
| Causative passive | 助長させられる(じょちょうさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 助長すれば(じょちょうすれば) |
| tara | 助長したら(じょちょうしたら) |
| Volitional | 助長しよう(じょちょうしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 助長しましょう(じょちょうしましょう) |
| Imperative | 助長しろ(じょちょうしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym助成じょせいWrittenWritten/formal prose word for financial support or subsidies, as in 「助成金」. Neutral and positive, lacking 助長's sense of unintentionally making a bad tendency worse.
- Related育成いくせいNeutralCultivating or training people over the long term, as in 「人材育成」. Positive, and unlike 助長 it never implies making something bad worse.
- Antonym抑制よくせいWrittenWritten/formal prose for holding something in check or restraining it — the direct opposite of 助長's fostering of a tendency.
- Antonym阻止そしNeutralStopping or preventing something from happening — the opposite of 助長, which fans a tendency along rather than holding it back.
Use 「助長」 for making a (usually bad) tendency worse, as in 「差別を助長する」「不安を助長する」. For financial support say 「助成」, for cultivating people 「育成」; to hold a tendency in check say 「抑制」.
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