JLPT N1Written, formalRules and notices

に準じゅんじて・に準じゅんずるon the same footing as; equivalent to

Something is handled by a rule that was written for something else: contract staff get leave on the same footing as regular staff.

契けい約やく社しゃ員いんの休きゅう暇かは、正せい社しゃ員いんに準じゅんじて取とり扱あつかう。

Leave for contract staff is handled on the same footing as for regular staff.

運うん転てん免めん許きょ証しょう、またはこれに準じゅんずる書しょ類るいをお持もちください。

Please bring a driver's license or an equivalent document.

Before an action

Noun + に準じゅんじて／に準じゅんじ

に準じゅんじ is the stiffer of the two.

Before a noun

Noun + に準じゅんずる／に準じゅんじる／に準じゅんじた + noun

準じゅんずる is the older form of 準じゅんじる, and the one rules and laws prefer. Either can end a sentence.

Before it: A rule written for another case: 規き定てい, 規き則そく, 基き準じゅん. Or the people that rule was written for: 正せい社しゃ員いん, 公こう務む員いん, 会かい員いん.
After it: How the case is handled: 取とり扱あつかう, 処しょ理りする, 支し給きゅうする, 行おこなう.
Where you'll meet it: Work rules, contracts, laws, application guidelines, job ads. Hardly ever in conversation.
In everyday speech: 〜と同おなじように: パートも社しゃ員いんと同おなじように休やすめる, part-timers can take time off just as regular staff can.

In use

この規き程ていに定さだめのない事じ項こうは、就しゅう業ぎょう規き則そくに準じゅんじて処しょ理りする。

Matters not covered by these regulations are dealt with in line with the work rules.

フットサルのルールは、基き本ほん的てきにサッカーに準じゅんじる。

The rules of futsal basically follow those of soccer.

契けい約やく社しゃ員いんだが、正せい社しゃ員いんに準じゅんじた待たい遇ぐうを受うけている。

She is on a contract, but her terms are close to those of regular staff.

Close to, not the same

準じゅん is "next to the real thing": 準じゅん決けっ勝しょう is a semi-final, 準じゅん優ゆう勝しょう second place. Terms that are 正せい社しゃ員いんに準じゅんずる are modelled on a regular employee's, not promised to be identical.

に則のっとって or に準じゅんじて?

大たい会かいは国こく際さいルールに則のっとって行おこなわれた。

The tournament was held in accordance with the international rules.

The international rules themselves applied.

大たい会かいは国こく際さいルールに準じゅんじて行おこなわれた。

The tournament was run on the lines of the international rules.

The rules were written for other tournaments. This one took them as its model.

In job ads, 当とう社しゃ規き定ていに準じゅんずる is no more than "as set by company rules".

Close neighbours

に則のっとってN1

Something is done the way a law, a rule or a tradition lays down. Before it stands the rule, never the people the rule is for.

社しゃ内ない規き程ていに則のっとり、申しん請せい書しょを人じん事じ部ぶへ提てい出しゅつしてください。

Please submit the application form to the human resources department in accordance with company regulations.

に従したがってN2

You do what an instruction, a rule or a manual tells you. It is the plain word, and the rule is one that applies to you.

係かかり員いんの指し示じに従したがって、指し定ていされた席せきに移い動どうしてください。

Please follow the staff's instructions and move to your assigned seat.

Check yourself

1Which one fits?

アルバイトの交こう通つう費ひは、社しゃ員いん（　　）支し給きゅうする。

Choose an answer to see why.

2A job ad says this. What does it tell you?

給きゅう与よは市しの職しょく員いんに準じゅんずる。

Choose an answer to see why.

More sentences

手て当あては、国こっ家か公こう務む員いんの規き定ていに準じゅんじて支し給きゅうする。

Allowances are paid in line with the rules for national civil servants.

学がく生せい証しょう、またはこれに準じゅんずるものを窓まど口ぐちでご提てい示じください。

Please show your student card, or something equivalent, at the counter.