Translation guide
The English word "transactions" covers a range of meanings from business dealings and financial exchanges to interactions and proceedings. This guide helps you choose the right Japanese expression based on the specific context.
Refers to buying, selling, or other business activities, often involving money.
The most common and general term for business transactions, deals, or trading. Can be used for both formal and everyday contexts.
Our company is expanding transactions with overseas partners.
Specifically refers to commercial transactions, often used in legal or formal business contexts.
Means buying and selling, often used for specific asset transactions like real estate or securities.
Refers to movements of money, such as deposits, withdrawals, transfers, or payment processing.
Refers to the published records of discussions, papers, or minutes of a meeting.
Minutes or proceedings of a meeting. The standard term for official records of what was discussed.
Refers to social interactions, communication, or dealings between individuals.
The English word "transactions" is very broad. Always consider the specific context: business, finance, records, or social interaction. Using 取引 for everything can sound unnatural.
取引 implies a formal, often monetary exchange. やり取り is more about the back-and-forth communication or interaction itself, not necessarily involving money.
Please pay in cash for this transaction.
Please comply with laws regarding commercial transactions.
不動産の売買契約を結びました。
We signed a real estate purchase and sale agreement.
Also used for financial transactions in banking and accounting contexts. Very versatile.
Please check your account transaction history.
This transaction has not been processed yet.
Specifically refers to deposits and withdrawals, i.e., incoming and outgoing money transactions.
I keep a daily record of deposits and withdrawals.
Means settlement or payment processing, often used for credit card or electronic transactions.
The credit card transaction has been completed.
Please send the minutes of the meeting.
Bulletin or proceedings of a society, often a regular publication summarizing activities and papers.
My paper was published in the society's transactions.
Academic journal or bulletin, often used for university departmental publications. Can be translated as 'transactions' in some contexts.
This research was published in the university's transactions.
General term for exchanges, interactions, or communication. Can be used for conversations, messages, or any back-and-forth.
I save my email transactions with him.
All the business transactions (negotiations) are recorded.
Exchange or interchange, often used for cultural or social interactions.
I learned a lot through international transactions (exchanges).
Can be used metaphorically for social dealings, but often implies a transactional or business-like relationship.
Using 取引 for personal interactions may sound cold or calculating.
It's not good to think of human relationships as transactions.