新築|しんちくshinchiku[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N1approx.Common
Definitions
  1. suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectivenew building; new construction
    家いえを新築しんちく中ちゅうです。↗
    I'm getting a new house built.
Conjugation
Dictionary form新築する(しんちくする)
Polite (masu)新築します(しんちくします)
Negative (nai)新築しない(しんちくしない)
polite (masen)新築しません(しんちくしません)
classical zu / nu新築せず・新築せぬ(しんちくせず・しんちくせぬ)
Past (ta)新築した(しんちくした)
polite (mashita)新築しました(しんちくしました)
Past negative (nakatta)新築しなかった(しんちくしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)新築しませんでした(しんちくしませんでした)
Te form新築して(しんちくして)
Potential新築できる(しんちくできる)
Passive新築される(しんちくされる)
Causative新築させる(しんちくさせる)
Causative passive新築させられる(しんちくさせられる)
Conditional (ba)新築すれば(しんちくすれば)
tara新築したら(しんちくしたら)
Volitional新築しよう(しんちくしよう)
polite (mashou)新築しましょう(しんちくしましょう)
Imperative新築しろ(しんちくしろ)

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

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym建造けんぞうWrittenWritten, technical term for building ships and structures; unlike 「新築」, it does not emphasize newness.
  • Synonym建立こんりゅうWrittenWritten register. Erecting temples and monuments; carries a religious coloring that 「新築」 does not.
  • Synonym新造しんぞうWrittenWritten register. Newly making ships or other structures; stresses fresh manufacture, while 「新築」 is about newly constructed buildings.
  • Related造営ぞうえいWrittenWritten register. Building palaces and shrines, with an archaic flavor; 「新築」 is the general word for newly built houses and buildings.
  • Antonym古家ふるいえNeutralAn old house; the neutral opposite of 「新築」, which refers to a newly built one.

Use 「新築」 for a newly built building, as in 「新築マンション」 or 「新築の校舎」. For palaces and shrines use 「造営」, for ships 「建造」, for temples and monuments 「建立」, for newly built ships 「新造」; an old house is 「古家」.

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

Japanese definitions
  1. 新あらたに建築物けんちくぶつを建たてること。
  2. 建築けんちくから1年ねんを経過けいかしてなく、かつ未使用みしようである建物たてものの表示ひょうじ。(不動産ふどうさんの表示ひょうじに関かんする公正こうせい競争きょうそう規約きやく)
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