Translation guide
Expresses the quantity or volume of items sold, often in business, retail, or economic contexts. Japanese uses compound nouns and verb phrases depending on whether you refer to the figure itself, the act of selling that amount, or the resulting sales volume.
What was the amount sold?
The amount sold increased.
The total number or amount of goods sold over a period.
Standard business term for 'quantity sold' or 'sales volume'. Used in reports and inventory contexts.
The amount sold this month increased compared to last month.
Similar to 販売数量, often used in sales reports. Emphasizes the quantity contributing to revenue.
Shorter, more casual version of 販売数量. Common in everyday business conversation.
The total revenue or sales amount in monetary terms.
Focus on the count of individual units sold.
Casual, everyday phrase meaning 'the number sold'. Suitable for conversation.
Expressing the action of selling a quantity, often with a number.
Basic verb pattern. Insert the quantity before を. Use counters like 個, 台, 冊, etc.
売上高 refers to monetary sales (revenue), while 販売数量 refers to the physical quantity sold. Do not confuse them.
The amount sold reached the target.
The amount sold of this product is growing.
The most common term for 'sales amount' or 'revenue'. Refers to the total monetary value of goods sold.
Last year's amount sold was 1 billion yen.
Literally 'sales amount', used in formal or accounting contexts.
The amount sold increased by 5% year-on-year.
How many did we sell today?
Formal term for 'number of units sold', used in inventory or sales data.
Please record the amount sold (number of units).
We sold 100 units in one day.
Intransitive: 'to be sold'. Focuses on the items moving. Often used with quantity.
A large amount of the new product was sold.
Revenue increased, but the amount sold (quantity) decreased.
Directly translating 'amount sold' as 売られた量 is unnatural. Use the compound nouns or verb phrases above.