接見|せっけんsekken[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verb(official) audience; interview; reception
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbmeeting with one's lawyer (while detained or imprisoned)
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 接見する（せっけんする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 接見します（せっけんします） |
| Negative (nai) | 接見しない（せっけんしない） |
| polite (masen) | 接見しません（せっけんしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 接見せず・接見せぬ（せっけんせず・せっけんせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 接見した（せっけんした） |
| polite (mashita) | 接見しました（せっけんしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 接見しなかった（せっけんしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 接見しませんでした（せっけんしませんでした） |
| Te form | 接見して（せっけんして） |
| Potential | 接見できる（せっけんできる） |
| Passive | 接見される（せっけんされる） |
| Causative | 接見させる（せっけんさせる） |
| Causative passive | 接見させられる（せっけんさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 接見すれば（せっけんすれば） |
| tara | 接見したら（せっけんしたら） |
| Volitional | 接見しよう（せっけんしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 接見しましょう（せっけんしましょう） |
| Imperative | 接見しろ（せっけんしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Related接待せったいNeutralWining and dining or entertaining guests, with a business slant, as in 「接待ゴルフ」; it has no sense of a formal audience.
- Related応対おうたいNeutralResponding to and attending to visitors and callers; the focus is on handling phone calls, as in 「電話応対」.
- Related接客せっきゃくNeutralServing customers; the focus is on the service industry, as in 「接客業」.
- Related迎賓げいひんWrittenFormal written term for welcoming honored guests, with the focus on state guests, as in 「迎賓館」.
- Related接遇せつぐうWrittenFormal written term for the reception and courteous treatment of guests; the focus is on polite manners in attending to them.
- Antonym面会謝絶めんかいしゃぜつNeutralRefusing visitors, the opposite of the meeting sense of 「接見」; most often seen in hospitals.
Use 「接見」 for a formal audience granted by someone of high standing or a detainee's meeting with a lawyer, as in 「天皇が接見する」「弁護士との接見」. For wining and dining say 「接待」, for serving customers 「接客」, for welcoming state guests 「迎賓」; the opposite is 「面会謝絶」.
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