結実|けつじつketsujitsu[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbfruition; fructification; bearing fruit
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbbearing fruit (of efforts, plans, etc.); coming to fruition; yielding success; paying off; realization; realisation; fruit (e.g. of hard work); result
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 結実する（けつじつする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 結実します（けつじつします） |
| Negative (nai) | 結実しない（けつじつしない） |
| polite (masen) | 結実しません（けつじつしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 結実せず・結実せぬ（けつじつせず・けつじつせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 結実した（けつじつした） |
| polite (mashita) | 結実しました（けつじつしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 結実しなかった（けつじつしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 結実しませんでした（けつじつしませんでした） |
| Te form | 結実して（けつじつして） |
| Potential | 結実できる（けつじつできる） |
| Passive | 結実される（けつじつされる） |
| Causative | 結実させる（けつじつさせる） |
| Causative passive | 結実させられる（けつじつさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 結実すれば（けつじつすれば） |
| tara | 結実したら（けつじつしたら） |
| Volitional | 結実しよう（けつじつしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 結実しましょう（けつじつしましょう） |
| Imperative | 結実しろ（けつじつしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym実りみのりNeutralNeutral. Ripening and harvest; leans agricultural — crops bearing or results appearing, as in 「実りの秋」.
- Synonym成果せいかNeutralNeutral. The good results of effort; the most common everyday choice of these words.
- Related結晶けっしょうWrittenWritten register. Literally a crystal; figuratively the fruit of painstaking effort, as in 「汗の結晶」.
- Related収穫しゅうかくNeutralNeutral. Harvesting crops, or by extension the gains and lessons taken from something, as in 「大きな収穫」.
- Related産物さんぶつWrittenWritten register. Something produced by or arising from something else; can be praise or criticism, as in 「時代の産物」.
- Related開花かいかNeutralNot a true opposite: flowering comes before fruiting, so these are successive stages. Figuratively 「才能が開花する」 is talent emerging; 「結実」 is bearing results.
- Related所産しょさんFormalFormal. A product or result of something; found mainly in academic and critical writing.
- Related賜物たまものWrittenWritten register. A gift or boon — something heaven-sent, or a good result earned through effort; often as 「努力の賜物」.
- Antonym不結実WrittenWritten register. Failure to bear fruit — including flowers that never set fruit; the direct opposite of 「結実」, but rare in daily use.
Use 「結実」 for plants bearing fruit or for efforts coming to fruition, as in 「長年の研究が結実する」. For the result itself say 「成果」; credit something to its source with 「賜物」; harvesting crops is 「収穫」.
Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only
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