付ふ会かい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

adding; connecting; joining

General act of attaching or linking things together, often used in compound contexts. Can be used as a noun or with する as a transitive verb.

• 二ふたつの文ぶん章しょうを付ふ会かいして一ひとつのレポートにまとめた。

  I connected the two texts and combined them into one report.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

forced inference; strained analogy

Used in the idiom 牽強付会 (けんきょうふかい) meaning 'strained interpretation' or 'forced logic'. Rarely used alone outside this compound.

See also: 牽強付会

• 彼かれの説せつ明めいは牽けん強きょう付ふ会かいで、誰だれも納なっ得とくしなかった。

  His explanation was a forced analogy, and no one was convinced.