消費|しょうひshouhi[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, transitive verbconsumption; expenditure; spending
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 消費する(しょうひする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 消費します(しょうひします) |
| Negative (nai) | 消費しない(しょうひしない) |
| polite (masen) | 消費しません(しょうひしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 消費せず・消費せぬ(しょうひせず・しょうひせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 消費した(しょうひした) |
| polite (mashita) | 消費しました(しょうひしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 消費しなかった(しょうひしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 消費しませんでした(しょうひしませんでした) |
| Te form | 消費して(しょうひして) |
| Potential | 消費できる(しょうひできる) |
| Passive | 消費される(しょうひされる) |
| Causative | 消費させる(しょうひさせる) |
| Causative passive | 消費させられる(しょうひさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 消費すれば(しょうひすれば) |
| tara | 消費したら(しょうひしたら) |
| Volitional | 消費しよう(しょうひしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 消費しましょう(しょうひしましょう) |
| Imperative | 消費しろ(しょうひしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym消耗しょうもうNeutralWearing out, or draining of stamina and energy — 「体力を消耗する」. 「消費」 centers on spending resources or money rather than on wear and exhaustion.
- Synonym支出ししゅつWrittenMoney paid out, the bookkeeping counterpart of 「収入」; used for accounts and household budgets. 「消費」 also covers energy and time.
- Synonym費消ひしょうWrittenWritten and rare: spending every last bit of one's money, or embezzling funds. In everyday speech say 「使い果たす」.
- Synonym出費しゅっぴNeutralOutlays and expenses, limited to money; common in 「出費がかさむ」 (expenses pile up). 「消費」 is the broader economic term.
- Synonym費やすついやすNeutralTo spend or devote money, time or effort on something — 「時間を費やす」. 「消費」 stays closer to economic usage.
- Related使うつかうNeutralThe everyday all-purpose verb: using tools or people, spending money or time. 「消費」 sounds like economic terminology by comparison.
- Related使用しようNeutralUsing an object or person as it is — the emphasis is on putting something to use. 「消費」 is about resources or energy being used up, not necessarily fully.
- Related利用りようNeutralPutting something to good use for your own benefit or convenience; carries no sense of depletion, unlike 「消費」.
- Related使い果たすつかいはたすNeutralTo use money, energy etc. up completely, with nothing left. 「消費」 does not necessarily imply using everything.
- Related損耗そんもうWrittenWritten and rare: wear and reduction through use, mostly of machines and equipment. In ordinary contexts say 「消耗」.
- Antonym生産せいさんNeutralThe economic opposite: production and manufacture, as in 「生産と消費」.
- Antonym貯蓄ちょちくNeutralSaving money — the opposite of 「消費」, which is spending it.
Use 「消費」 for consuming resources in an economic sense — money, energy, goods. For money outgoings on the books pick 「支出」 or 「出費」; for drained energy or stamina pick 「消耗」; in everyday talk just say 「使う」. 「費やす」 devotes time or effort to something, 「使い果たす」 means using it all up, and 「生産」 and 「貯蓄」 are its opposites.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
- 使い果たすこと。


