減額|げんがくgengaku[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbreduction (esp. in price or cost); diminution; abatement
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 減額する（げんがくする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 減額します（げんがくします） |
| Negative (nai) | 減額しない（げんがくしない） |
| polite (masen) | 減額しません（げんがくしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 減額せず・減額せぬ（げんがくせず・げんがくせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 減額した（げんがくした） |
| polite (mashita) | 減額しました（げんがくしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 減額しなかった（げんがくしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 減額しませんでした（げんがくしませんでした） |
| Te form | 減額して（げんがくして） |
| Potential | 減額できる（げんがくできる） |
| Passive | 減額される（げんがくされる） |
| Causative | 減額させる（げんがくさせる） |
| Causative passive | 減額させられる（げんがくさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 減額すれば（げんがくすれば） |
| tara | 減額したら（げんがくしたら） |
| Volitional | 減額しよう（げんがくしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 減額しましょう（げんがくしましょう） |
| Imperative | 減額しろ（げんがくしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym削減さくげんWrittenWritten register: cutting budgets or staff, as in 「経費削減」; 「減額」 focuses on reducing a sum or amount of money.
- Synonym減少げんしょうNeutralNeutral word for a drop in quantity or number; 「減額」 centres on cutting a sum or figure, most typically an amount of money.
- Synonym縮小しゅくしょうWrittenWritten register: shrinking scale or size; 「減額」 leans toward amounts of money.
- Synonym低減ていげんWrittenWritten register: lowering or reducing, as in 「コスト低減」; 「減額」 leans toward amounts of money.
- Synonym軽減けいげんWrittenWritten register: easing a burden, as in 「税負担の軽減」; 「減額」 is a cut in the amount itself.
- Synonym節減せつげんWrittenWritten register: economising on expenses; 「減額」 simply means a smaller amount.
- Synonym減らすへらすCasualColloquial verb meaning to reduce; 「減額」 is a noun centred on amounts of money.
- Synonym縮減しゅくげんWrittenWritten register: scaling down size or budgets; 「減額」 leans toward amounts of money.
- Synonym引き下げひきさげNeutralNeutral word for lowering prices or interest rates; 「減額」 centres on reducing an amount.
- Synonym減ずるげんずるWrittenWritten verb for decreasing or deducting; 「減額」 is a noun.
- Synonym減じるげんじるWrittenWritten register: the ichidan form of 「減ずる」; also heard in speech for doses or degrees; 「減額」 is a noun.
- Related節約せつやくNeutralNeutral word for economising by cutting out waste; 「減額」 means reducing a sum of money.
- RelatedカットCasualColloquial loanword for cuts, as in 「給料カット」; 「減額」 is more formal.
- Antonym増額ぞうがくWrittenWritten register: increasing a sum of money; the direct opposite of 「減額」.
Use 「減額」 for reducing an amount of money such as wages or subsidies, as in 「給与の減額」. For cutting budgets pick 「削減」, for easing burdens 「軽減」, and for lowering prices or rates 「引き下げ」; the opposite is 「増額」.
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