植民・殖民|しょくみんshokumin[0]heiban (flat)

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Which spelling to use
植民植民 is the more common of the two written forms. Learners should recognize it when reading, even if they default to 殖民.
殖民殖民 is less common than 植民, but beginners should use 殖民 as their default written form.
Definitions
  1. suru verb, intransitive verb, no-adjectivecolonization; colonisation
    彼かれらはミズーリ州みずーりしゅうに植民しょくみんする計画けいかくを立たてている。↗
    They are planning to settle Missouri.
Conjugation
Dictionary form植民する(しょくみんする)
Polite (masu)植民します(しょくみんします)
Negative (nai)植民しない(しょくみんしない)
polite (masen)植民しません(しょくみんしません)
classical zu / nu植民せず・植民せぬ(しょくみんせず・しょくみんせぬ)
Past (ta)植民した(しょくみんした)
polite (mashita)植民しました(しょくみんしました)
Past negative (nakatta)植民しなかった(しょくみんしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)植民しませんでした(しょくみんしませんでした)
Te form植民して(しょくみんして)
Potential植民できる(しょくみんできる)
Passive植民される(しょくみんされる)
Causative植民させる(しょくみんさせる)
Causative passive植民させられる(しょくみんさせられる)
Conditional (ba)植民すれば(しょくみんすれば)
tara植民したら(しょくみんしたら)
Volitional植民しよう(しょくみんしよう)
polite (mashou)植民しましょう(しょくみんしましょう)
Imperative植民しろ(しょくみんしろ)

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

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Related植民地しょくみんちNeutralThe territory itself where settlers live or that is under colonial rule; also Japanese communities in Brazil. 「植民」 stresses the act of settling and developing.
  • Related入植地にゅうしょくちWrittenA written/formal prose term for land that migrants settle and develop; carries no nuance of colonial rule.
  • RelatedコロニアWrittenA written/formal loanword for immigrant communities, above all Japanese settlements in South America; its use is very narrow.
  • Antonym独立どくりつNeutralNeutral: independence — the opposite of being under colonial rule, as in 「植民地からの独立」.

Use 「植民」 for the act of moving to another region to settle, develop it, or establish rule, as in 「植民政策」「北海道への植民」. For the place itself say 「植民地」; land opened up by settlers is 「入植地」. The opposite is 「独立」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. ある国くにの国民こくみんがその国くにに隷属れいぞくする国くにや地域ちいきに移住いじゅうして経済的けいざいてきな活動かつどうや開拓かいたくすること。また、その民たみ。殖民しょくみん。
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