累積|るいせきruiseki[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbaccumulation
- prenominal modifiercumulative; accumulated
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 累積する(るいせきする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 累積します(るいせきします) |
| Negative (nai) | 累積しない(るいせきしない) |
| polite (masen) | 累積しません(るいせきしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 累積せず・累積せぬ(るいせきせず・るいせきせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 累積した(るいせきした) |
| polite (mashita) | 累積しました(るいせきしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 累積しなかった(るいせきしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 累積しませんでした(るいせきしませんでした) |
| Te form | 累積して(るいせきして) |
| Potential | 累積できる(るいせきできる) |
| Passive | 累積される(るいせきされる) |
| Causative | 累積させる(るいせきさせる) |
| Causative passive | 累積させられる(るいせきさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 累積すれば(るいせきすれば) |
| tara | 累積したら(るいせきしたら) |
| Volitional | 累積しよう(るいせきしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 累積しましょう(るいせきしましょう) |
| Imperative | 累積しろ(るいせきしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym集積しゅうせきWrittenWritten style: things gathered and piled up together, as in 「産業集積」. 「累積」 stresses adding up time after time, as with a growing deficit.
- Synonym蓄積ちくせきNeutralGradual storing up, as in 「疲労の蓄積」 or 「知識の蓄積」; 「累積」 leans toward quantities added up one after another.
- Synonym堆積たいせきNeutralMud, sand and the like piling up high, or sediment settling; 「累積」 is mostly for figures and burdens.
- Synonym累加るいかWrittenWritten style: adding the same quantity successively. 「累積」 covers the whole process or result of continuous accumulation.
- Related累増るいぞうWrittenWritten style: continuous, successive increases. 「累積」 leans toward the cumulative total rather than the rise itself.
- Related増加ぞうかNeutralThe broadest word for a quantity increasing; 「累積」 stresses the result of layering up additions over time.
- Related増大ぞうだいWrittenWritten style: growing larger in scale or size. 「累積」 leans toward piling up a cumulative total.
- Antonym減少げんしょうNeutralA quantity going down — the direct opposite of 「累積」, which adds up time after time.
- Antonym消費しょうひNeutralUsing something up or spending it — the opposite of 「累積」, which stores things up.
Use 「累積」 for things added up time after time — deficits, burdens, scores, as in 「累積赤字」. For knowledge or fatigue built up, use 「蓄積」; for industrial clustering, 「集積」; for mud and sand piling up, 「堆積」. 「増加」 is the general word for a rise; 「減少」 is the opposite.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only


