減食|げんしょくgenshoku[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbcutting down on food intake; reducing rations; reducing allowance of food
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 減食する(げんしょくする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 減食します(げんしょくします) |
| Negative (nai) | 減食しない(げんしょくしない) |
| polite (masen) | 減食しません(げんしょくしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 減食せず・減食せぬ(げんしょくせず・げんしょくせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 減食した(げんしょくした) |
| polite (mashita) | 減食しました(げんしょくしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 減食しなかった(げんしょくしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 減食しませんでした(げんしょくしませんでした) |
| Te form | 減食して(げんしょくして) |
| Potential | 減食できる(げんしょくできる) |
| Passive | 減食される(げんしょくされる) |
| Causative | 減食させる(げんしょくさせる) |
| Causative passive | 減食させられる(げんしょくさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 減食すれば(げんしょくすれば) |
| tara | 減食したら(げんしょくしたら) |
| Volitional | 減食しよう(げんしょくしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 減食しましょう(げんしょくしましょう) |
| Imperative | 減食しろ(げんしょくしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym節食せっしょくWrittenWritten word for moderately curbing one's eating—self-restraint in diet. 「減食」 can additionally mean cutting rations as punishment.
- RelatedダイエットNeutralEveryday loanword for dieting or losing weight, exercise included; the most common choice. 「減食」 is narrower—reducing meal portions or rations.
- Related食事制限しょくじせいげんWrittenWritten/formal: limiting what or how much you eat for health or treatment; the medical slant sets it apart from 「減食」.
- Antonym過食かしょくWrittenWritten/formal term for overeating or bingeing—the opposite of cutting down how much one eats.
- Antonym大食たいしょくCasualColloquial: having a big appetite, eating a lot or being greedy with food; opposite of deliberately eating less.
For everyday weight loss, 「ダイエット」 is the word. 「食事制限」 is written, for health or treatment; 「節食」 is written self-restraint. 「減食」 covers eating less or reduced rations, even as punishment; 「過食」 and 「大食」 are its opposites.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only


