I Love Kanji処分 (shobun)
処分 (しょぶん, shobun) is a Japanese noun / suru verb meaning “disposal; throwing away”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しょぶん
- Romaji
- shobun
- Word class
- Noun + する (suru verb)
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- disposal; throwing away; selling off · noun, suru verb, transitive
- dealing with (a problem); measure · noun, suru verb, transitive
- punishment; penalty · noun, suru verb, transitive
- putting down (e.g. diseased animal) · noun, suru verb, transitive
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 処分
Noun + する (suru verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 処分する | しょぶんする shobunsuru |
| Polite (~masu) | 処分します | しょぶんします shobunshimasu |
| Negative | 処分しない | しょぶんしない shobunshinai |
| Polite negative | 処分しません | しょぶんしません shobunshimasen |
| Past | 処分した | しょぶんした shobunshita |
| Polite past | 処分しました | しょぶんしました shobunshimashita |
| Negative past | 処分しなかった | しょぶんしなかった shobunshinakatta |
| Te-form | 処分して | しょぶんして shobunshite |
| Potential | 処分できる | しょぶんできる shobundekiru |
| Passive | 処分される | しょぶんされる shobunsareru |
| Causative | 処分させる | しょぶんさせる shobunsaseru |
| Volitional | 処分しよう | しょぶんしよう shobunshiyou |
| Imperative | 処分しろ | しょぶんしろ shobunshiro |
| Conditional (~ba) | 処分すれば | しょぶんすれば shobunsureba |
Kanji in 処分
処
dispose, manage, deal withショ・ところ・-こ · 5 strokes分
part, minute of time, segmentブン・フン・わ.ける・わ.け · 4 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 処分.
処理しょりprocessing処置しょちmeasure処罰しょばつpunishment対処たいしょdealing with分ふんminute (unit of time)自分じぶんmyself多分たぶんprobably半分はんぶんhalf分かるわかるto understand気分きぶんfeeling随分ずいぶんvery十分じゅうぶんenough大分だいぶconsiderably分ぶんpart
Source: JMdict entry 1342490 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.