呼び寄せる・呼びよせる・呼寄せる|よびよせるyobiyoseru[4]nakadaka (mid-high)
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Which spelling to use
呼び寄せる呼び寄せる is the most common written form and the recommended choice for beginners. It combines kanji and kana.
呼びよせる呼びよせる is less common than 呼び寄せる. It is another kanji-and-kana spelling, but 呼び寄せる is the better choice for beginners.
呼寄せる呼寄せる is the least common of the three written forms. It is also written with kanji and kana, but beginners should use 呼び寄せる instead.
Definitions
- ichidan verb, transitive verbto call; to summon; to send for; to call together
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 呼び寄せる（よびよせる） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 呼び寄せます（よびよせます） |
| Negative (nai) | 呼び寄せない（よびよせない） |
| polite (masen) | 呼び寄せません（よびよせません） |
| classical zu / nu | 呼び寄せず・呼び寄せぬ（よびよせず・よびよせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 呼び寄せた（よびよせた） |
| polite (mashita) | 呼び寄せました（よびよせました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 呼び寄せなかった（よびよせなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 呼び寄せませんでした（よびよせませんでした） |
| Te form | 呼び寄せて（よびよせて） |
| Potential | 呼び寄せられる（よびよせられる） |
| Passive | 呼び寄せられる（よびよせられる） |
| Causative | 呼び寄せさせる（よびよせさせる） |
| Causative passive | 呼び寄せさせられる（よびよせさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 呼び寄せれば（よびよせれば） |
| tara | 呼び寄せたら（よびよせたら） |
| Volitional | 呼び寄せよう（よびよせよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 呼び寄せましょう（よびよせましょう） |
| Imperative | 呼び寄せろ（よびよせろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym呼び出すよびだすNeutralNeutral. To call someone out or summon them, also by phone; unlike 「呼び寄せる」, it does not stress bringing the person to your side or taking them in.
- Synonym呼ぶよぶNeutralNeutral and the most general: to call or send for someone; it does not emphasize calling the person to your side the way 「呼び寄せる」 does.
- Synonym召集しょうしゅうFormalFormal. Convening the Diet or calling up recruits for military service; carries an authoritative, order-based force.
- Related招集しょうしゅうFormalFormal. For convening a meeting or assembling members, e.g. 「会議を招集する」; official and procedural rather than a personal call.
- Related駆り集めるかりあつめるWrittenWritten/formal prose. Gathers scattered people or things in one place, with a strong mobilizing nuance; 「呼び寄せる」 calls a person to your side.
- Related呼びつけるよびつけるNeutralNeutral. Calls a person to your very presence with a commanding, talking-down tone that 「呼び寄せる」 does not carry.
- Related呼びにやるよびにやるCasualColloquial. To send someone off to fetch a person, as in 「医者を呼びにやる」; the focus is on dispatching a messenger.
- Related招き寄せるまねきよせるWrittenWritten/formal prose. To beckon—gesture someone to come closer—with the focus on the gesture itself; rarely used.
- Related呼び迎えるよびむかえるNeutralNeutral. To send someone to go and meet the person and bring them back with a welcome; old-fashioned and rarely used.
- Antonym追い払うおいはらうNeutralNeutral antonym: to drive a person or thing away, the opposite of calling them to your side.
Use 「呼び寄せる」 to call family, animals and the like to your side or bring them over, as in 「家族を故郷から呼び寄せる」. For simply calling someone, 「呼ぶ」 is the all-purpose choice; 「呼び出す」 summons a person out or by phone. For convening meetings use 「招集」, for Diet or military call-ups 「召集」, and 「追い払う」 is the opposite, driving away.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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