Translation guide
The concept of linking a value (such as wages, pensions, or tax brackets) to an index (such as inflation or cost of living) so that it adjusts automatically.
To express that a payment, threshold, or value is automatically adjusted according to a price index or economic indicator.
A common term for a system where payments (e.g., pensions) are adjusted based on price indexes. Literally 'price sliding system'.
年金は物価スライド制で毎年改定されます。
Pensions are revised annually through indexation to prices.
Means 'linked to prices' and is used attributively (e.g., 物価連動債). Often appears in compound nouns.
物価連動国債はインフレに強い。
Inflation-indexed government bonds are resilient to inflation.
A verbal pattern meaning 'to link something to prices'. Used when describing the action of indexation.
政府は年金を物価に連動させる方針だ。
The government plans to index pensions to prices.
In everyday conversation, Japanese speakers rarely use a single word for 'indexation'. Instead, they describe the mechanism (e.g., 'adjusted according to prices'). Use the phrase that fits the specific context (pensions, taxes, wages).
Direct loanword from English, used in economic or financial contexts. Understandable but less common than native phrases.
税制のインデクセーションが議論されている。
Indexation of the tax system is being discussed.