発送|はっそうhassou[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbsending; forwarding; shipping
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 発送する（はっそうする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 発送します（はっそうします） |
| Negative (nai) | 発送しない（はっそうしない） |
| polite (masen) | 発送しません（はっそうしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 発送せず・発送せぬ（はっそうせず・はっそうせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 発送した（はっそうした） |
| polite (mashita) | 発送しました（はっそうしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 発送しなかった（はっそうしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 発送しませんでした（はっそうしませんでした） |
| Te form | 発送して（はっそうして） |
| Potential | 発送できる（はっそうできる） |
| Passive | 発送される（はっそうされる） |
| Causative | 発送させる（はっそうさせる） |
| Causative passive | 発送させられる（はっそうさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 発送すれば（はっそうすれば） |
| tara | 発送したら（はっそうしたら） |
| Volitional | 発送しよう（はっそうしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 発送しましょう（はっそうしましょう） |
| Imperative | 発送しろ（はっそうしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym発信はっしんNeutralNeutral. Sending out information or signals, also posting on social media; the object is information, not goods.
- Synonym送付そうふWrittenWritten/formal: sending documents or materials, business-office flavor, as in 「書類を送付する」.
- Synonym積み出すつみだすNeutralNeutral verb. To load and ship off, stressing loading onto ships or trucks; for goods in bulk.
- Synonym送るおくるNeutralNeutral verb. The everyday, all-purpose word for sending things; extremely wide use, colloquial.
- Synonym積み出しつみだしNeutralNeutral noun. Shipment of goods, stressing their leaving the port or warehouse.
- Related差し出すさしだすNeutralNeutral. To hand in or hold out, also to mail something, as 「郵便物を差し出す」; 「発送」 stresses sending goods or mail off.
- Related送り込むおくりこむNeutralNeutral. To send into a place, e.g. sending people into an organization; stresses delivering something inside.
- Related送り出すおくりだすNeutralNeutral. To send away or send out, as 「卒業生を送り出す」; stresses seeing someone off.
- Related派遣はけんNeutralNeutral. Dispatching people; the object is personnel, not goods or mail.
- Related出荷しゅっかNeutralNeutral. Shipping goods from their origin or warehouse out to market; stresses moving merchandise in bulk.
- Related送り届けるおくりとどけるNeutralNeutral. Getting a person or thing to its destination, in person or by carrier; 「発送」 covers only the sending-off step.
- Related届けるとどけるNeutralNeutral verb. To deliver or hand something to the recipient, also to file a report with the authorities.
- Related送達そうたつWrittenWritten/formal: delivery to the recipient, also the formal service of legal papers; 「発送」 focuses on sending goods or mail out.
- Related送出そうしゅつWrittenWritten/formal and rare: the act of sending out, stressing the output itself; not specifically about shipping goods.
- Related荷送におくりWrittenWritten/formal and rare: consigning freight, a logistics term close in sense to 「発送」.
- Related急送きゅうそうNeutralNeutral. Rushing a shipment, stressing speed, as in 「急送する」.
- Related逓送ていそうWrittenWritten/formal, dated and rare: relaying something stage by stage, a term from postal history.
- Related派出はしゅつWrittenWritten/formal: sending personnel out; the object is people, not goods.
- Related積み送りつみおくりWrittenWritten/formal: loading goods onto ships or trucks for shipment, possibly in several lots, a freight term; 「発送」 is the general word for sending out.
- Related急便きゅうびんNeutralNeutral. Express mail or urgent delivery, also common in courier names like 「○○急便」; 「発送」 is the general act of sending.
- Antonym受け取りうけとりNeutralNeutral. Receiving goods; the opposite of sending them out with 「発送」.
- Antonym到着とうちゃくNeutralNeutral. Arrival, the opposite of dispatch, as in 「到着予定」.
Use 「発送」 for sending goods or mail out, as in 「商品を発送する」. In everyday talk say 「送る」; for business documents use 「送付」; for goods shipped from a producer or warehouse use 「出荷」; for sending out information use 「発信」. The opposites are 「受け取り」 and 「到着」.
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