確立|かくりつkakuritsu[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbestablishment; settlement
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 確立する（かくりつする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 確立します（かくりつします） |
| Negative (nai) | 確立しない（かくりつしない） |
| polite (masen) | 確立しません（かくりつしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 確立せず・確立せぬ（かくりつせず・かくりつせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 確立した（かくりつした） |
| polite (mashita) | 確立しました（かくりつしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 確立しなかった（かくりつしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 確立しませんでした（かくりつしませんでした） |
| Te form | 確立して（かくりつして） |
| Potential | 確立できる（かくりつできる） |
| Passive | 確立される（かくりつされる） |
| Causative | 確立させる（かくりつさせる） |
| Causative passive | 確立させられる（かくりつさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 確立すれば（かくりつすれば） |
| tara | 確立したら（かくりつしたら） |
| Volitional | 確立しよう（かくりつしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 確立しましょう（かくりつしましょう） |
| Imperative | 確立しろ（かくりつしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym樹立じゅりつWrittenFormal: building ties or a regime, or setting a record, e.g. 「新記録を樹立」. 「確立」 centres on a system or status settling firmly and is never used for records.
- Synonym打ち立てるうちたてるWrittenFormal: establishing a policy or theory, or setting a record, e.g. 「新記録を打ち立てる」. 「確立」 never sets records and sounds plainer.
- Related制定せいていWrittenFormal: enacting laws and rules, e.g. 「法律の制定」— the point is drawing up the provisions. 「確立」 is about making a system, policy, or status firm and settled.
- Related設立せつりつNeutralFounding an organization — a company, school, committee — from nothing. 「確立」 stresses making a system, a status, or an organization itself firm and secure.
- Related設定せっていNeutralSetting conditions or goals; also story backgrounds and device configuration — an everyday word. 「確立」 is about a system or status being firmly in place.
- Related設置せっちNeutralSetting up an institution or installing equipment, e.g. 「委員会を設置」. 「確立」 is not used for physical facilities; it makes a system or policy firm.
- Related創設そうせつWrittenFormal: creating a system or organization for the first time, from nothing. 「確立」 is about a system, policy, or status becoming firm and settled.
- Related開設かいせつNeutralOpening an account, service window, or facility and starting its operation. 「確立」 applies to systems, status, and methods, not to concrete facilities.
- Related創立そうりつWrittenFormal: founding a school or company at its start, as in 「創立記念日」. 「確立」 is about a system, status, or organization becoming firm and secure.
- Related創始そうしWrittenFormal: originating something or a school of thought, as in 「創始者」— the stress is on the beginning. 「確立」 makes a system or method firm, old or new alike.
- Related創建そうけんWrittenFormal: first building of a structure or founding of an organization, often in temple histories. 「確立」 involves no construction; it firms up a system or status.
- Related新設しんせつWrittenFormal: newly setting up a subject, facility, or route — the point is adding something new. 「確立」 firms up a system or policy and does not mean adding new.
- Related作るつくるNeutralThe everyday all-purpose verb for making things. 「制度を作る」 only says the system is built; 「確立」 stresses that it is settled and firmly fixed.
- Related定めるさだめるWrittenFormal: deciding or prescribing, as in 「法律で定める」— laying down what the content is. 「確立」 is about making it firm so it will not waver.
- Related築き上げるきずきあげるNeutralBuilding something up bit by bit over time, e.g. 「信頼を築き上げる」— the process matters. 「確立」 points to the final, firm result.
- Related設けるもうけるWrittenFormal: providing a place or opportunity, or laying down rules, e.g. 「規則を設ける」. 「確立」 is about making a system or status firm.
- Related組織そしきNeutralAs a verb, forming a group or body; also a noun for the organization itself. 「確立」 is about a system or organization being firmly fixed, not the act of forming it.
- Related編成へんせいWrittenFormal: arranging individual items or components into one organized whole, e.g. 「予算編成」「番組編成」. 「確立」 firms up a system or policy and says nothing about arranging.
- Related結成けっせいWrittenFormal: people joining together to form a group or party, e.g. 「新党結成」— the act of forming. 「確立」 is about a status, system, or organization being firm.
- Related構築こうちくWrittenFormal: building systems, relationships, or theories, e.g. 「関係構築」— stresses the process of putting them together. 「確立」 is the final settled state.
- Related確定かくていNeutralBeing finally decided or settled, e.g. 「判決確定」— fixed so it will not change. 「確立」 is a system or status being firmly established.
- Related形成けいせいWrittenFormal: gradually taking shape, e.g. 「人格形成」「市場形成」— a form coming into being. 「確立」 means it is already firm and unshakable.
- Related興すおこすWrittenFormal: revitalizing an industry or launching a venture, e.g. 「事業を興す」— making it rise. 「確立」 is about a system or status being made firm.
- Antonym崩壊ほうかいNeutralAntonym: where 「確立」 makes a system or organization firm, this means collapse or breakdown; also buildings caving in.
- Antonym瓦解がかいWrittenFormal antonym: an organization falls apart as its parts break down. More written-formal and less common than 「崩壊」.
Use 「確立」 for making a system, status, or method firm and settled. For enacting laws or rules pick 「制定」; for founding a company or institution, 「設立」; for building up relationships or systems, 「構築」; for a final decision that cannot change, 「確定」. The antonym is 「崩壊」.
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