買い上げる・買上げる|かいあげるkaiageru[4]nakadaka (mid-high)
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Which spelling to use
買い上げる買い上げる is the most common form. Use it when a government or public agency buys from a private citizen, or when someone buys up all of something.
買上げる買上げる is a less common kanji-and-kana variant of 買い上げる. It has the same meanings, including purchases by a government or public agency and buying up all of something.
Definitions
- ichidan verb, transitive verbto buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
- ichidan verb, transitive verbto buy up (all of something)
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 買い上げる（かいあげる） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 買い上げます（かいあげます） |
| Negative (nai) | 買い上げない（かいあげない） |
| polite (masen) | 買い上げません（かいあげません） |
| classical zu / nu | 買い上げず・買い上げぬ（かいあげず・かいあげぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 買い上げた（かいあげた） |
| polite (mashita) | 買い上げました（かいあげました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 買い上げなかった（かいあげなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 買い上げませんでした（かいあげませんでした） |
| Te form | 買い上げて（かいあげて） |
| Potential | 買い上げられる（かいあげられる） |
| Passive | 買い上げられる（かいあげられる） |
| Causative | 買い上げさせる（かいあげさせる） |
| Causative passive | 買い上げさせられる（かいあげさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 買い上げれば（かいあげれば） |
| tara | 買い上げたら（かいあげたら） |
| Volitional | 買い上げよう（かいあげよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 買い上げましょう（かいあげましょう） |
| Imperative | 買い上げろ（かいあげろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym買取かいとりNeutralNeutral. A noun: buying something over, including buyouts; the usual word for trade-ins and buying used goods, as in 「買取価格」. The buyer need not be a public agency.
- Synonym買い取るかいとるNeutralNeutral. To buy something over and make it one's own, stressing acquisition of ownership; unlike the headword, the buyer need not be an official body.
- Synonym購入こうにゅうWrittenWritten/formal prose. A common word for buying in general, fine in speech too; it has no nuance of an official body acquiring from private citizens.
- Synonym購買こうばいWrittenWritten/formal prose. Procurement, mostly in set phrases like 「購買力」; also names a school co-op store. Not a verb for everyday buying.
- Synonym買い受けるかいうけるWrittenWritten/formal prose. Rare and mostly seen in contracts: taking goods or rights as the buyer in a paid deal.
- Related買い求めるかいもとめるWrittenWritten/formal prose. To go out and buy something one wants, stressing the act of seeking it out; often heard in shopkeepers' polite messages to customers.
- Related買い入れるかいいれるNeutralNeutral. To buy in for oneself; also very common for merchants stocking up in bulk, as in 「原料を買い入れる」. The buyer is not limited to official bodies.
- Related買うかうNeutralNeutral. The everyday verb for buying, far broader than the headword; it also covers valuing something highly and incurring anger or criticism.
- Related購うあがなうWrittenWritten/formal prose. An archaic, rare literary verb for buying; also written 「贖う」 to mean atone for a sin, a special usage of its own.
- Antonym売り払ううりはらうNeutralNeutral. To sell off completely — the opposite direction from an official body paying to buy something up.
- Antonym売却するWrittenWritten/formal prose. To sell off assets — the written opposite of the headword's buying in.
Use 「買い上げる」 for a government or public agency buying from private citizens; the honorific 「お買い上げ」 is a shop thanking a customer for a purchase. For everyday buying use 「買う」, for trade-ins and used goods 「買取」, for general or bulk buying 「購入」 or 「買い入れる」, for buying out 「買い取る」. 「買い受ける」「買い求める」「購う」「購買」 are written/formal. The opposites are 「売り払う」 and 「売却する」.
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