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Reading and JLPT level

作る, 造る, 創る JLPT 5

Kana Reading

つくる

Romaji

tsukuru

Word Senses

Parts of speech

Godan verb with `ru' ending, transitive verb

Meaning

to make; to produce; to manufacture; to build; to construct

Example sentence

では、CG を作る場合はどのように光源を使用すればよいのであろうか。 Then, when you're making CG, how should you use light sources?
Parts of speech

Meaning

to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol)

Example sentence

接尾辞について、１：【-ion】「行動、状態、過程、結果」などの意を表す名詞を作る。 Suffixes, 1: "-ion" creates nouns that show the meaning of 'action, state, process, results,' and so on.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to raise; to grow; to cultivate; to train

Example sentence

この包丁・・・有名な刀匠が作ったものなんです。 This carving knife ... it's one made by a famous swordsmith.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to till

Example sentence

それで雪を踏み固めてブロックを作り、それを積むような方法が適しているんですね。 And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to draw up (a document); to make out; to prepare; to write

Example sentence

今日のお弁当もだけど、五木さんと田中さんの作るメニューは緑黄色野菜が少ないんじゃない？ About today's packed-lunch, the menus prepared by Itsuki and Tanaka are low in beta-carotene-rich vegetables again aren't they?
Parts of speech

Meaning

to create (an artistic work, etc.); to compose

Example sentence

「順路→」といったかんじの看板を設置したいと思うんですけど、これを英語で作るとどうなるでしょうか？ I'd like to set up a sign like, "This Way ->," but what would it be if I made it in English?
Parts of speech

Meaning

to coin (a phrase); to organize; to organise; to establish; to found

Example sentence

「－osity」は語尾が「－ous」の形容詞から作られる抽象名詞の語尾。 '-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to have (a child)

Example sentence

大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。 I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to make up (one's face, etc.)

Example sentence

一生懸命作られたゲームには、一生懸命に取り組むのが礼儀なんだよ？ポーズボタンなんて押したらゲームに失礼だもん。 It's only manners to tackle all out a game that they have gone all out in creating. Pressing the pause button is just rude!
Parts of speech

Meaning

to fabricate (an excuse, etc.)

Example sentence

お粥も作ってきました。チンして温めるだけですから。 I also brought some gruel I made. It just needs warming up.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to form (a line, etc.)

Example sentence

霊はこの世のどこにもいらっしゃいます。この学園はお社の跡地に作られていますので、特にお集まりになる傾向があります。 Spirits are to be found all over the world. This school was built upon the site of a shrine and thus there is a particular tendency for them to gather.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to set (a record)

Example sentence

天ぷらの作りかたを本で読みました。 I read about how to make tempura in a book.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to commit (a sin, etc.)

Example sentence

長崎にプロサッカーチームをつくりましょう！ Lets put together a pro-soccer team for Nagasaki!

Examples of 作る, 造る, 創る, つくる in a sentence

では、CG を作る場合はどのように光源を使用すればよいのであろうか。

Then, when you're making CG, how should you use light sources?
接尾辞について、１：【-ion】「行動、状態、過程、結果」などの意を表す名詞を作る。

Suffixes, 1: "-ion" creates nouns that show the meaning of 'action, state, process, results,' and so on.
この包丁・・・有名な刀匠が作ったものなんです。

This carving knife ... it's one made by a famous swordsmith.
それで雪を踏み固めてブロックを作り、それを積むような方法が適しているんですね。

And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.
今日のお弁当もだけど、五木さんと田中さんの作るメニューは緑黄色野菜が少ないんじゃない？

About today's packed-lunch, the menus prepared by Itsuki and Tanaka are low in beta-carotene-rich vegetables again aren't they?
「順路→」といったかんじの看板を設置したいと思うんですけど、これを英語で作るとどうなるでしょうか？

I'd like to set up a sign like, "This Way ->," but what would it be if I made it in English?

Verb Conjugations

Non-Past

Plain: 作る
Plain Polite: 作ります
Negative: 作らない
Negative Polite: 作りません

Past

Plain: 作った
Plain Polite: 作りました
Negative: 作らなかった
Negative Polite: 作りませんでした

Plain: 作って
Plain Polite: 作りまして
Negative: --
Negative Polite: --

Passive

Plain: 作られる
Plain Polite: 作られます
Negative: 作られない
Negative Polite: 作られません

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創 JLPT 1

12 strokes

genesis, wound, injury, hurt, start, originate

On'Yomi: ソウ, ショウ

Kun'Yomi: つく.る, はじ.める, きず, けず.しける

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造 JLPT 2

10 strokes

create, make, structure, physique

On'Yomi: ゾウ

Kun'Yomi: つく.る, つく.り, -づく.り

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作 JLPT 4

7 strokes

make, production, prepare, build

On'Yomi: サク, サ

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