借しゃっ金きん

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借金する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

debt; loan; borrowing money

General term for money owed or the act of borrowing money. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to borrow money' or 'to go into debt'.

games under .500

Colloquial baseball term for the number of games a team is below a .500 winning percentage. Used in phrases like 借金5 (five games under .500).

〈人ひと〉から借しゃっ金きんするto borrow money from someone
友ゆう人じんから借しゃっ金きんするのは気きが引ひける。
I feel awkward about borrowing money from a friend.
借しゃっ金きん〈数かず〉to be a certain number of games under .500
チームは借しゃっ金きん3を抱かかえている。
The team is three games under .500.
借しゃっ金きんを返かえすto pay back a debt
毎まい月つき少すこしずつ借しゃっ金きんを返かえしている。
I'm paying off my debt little by little every month.
借しゃっ金きんを抱かかえるto be burdened with debt
彼かれは多た額がくの借しゃっ金きんを抱かかえている。
He is burdened with a large debt.
借しゃっ金きんを重かさねるto pile up more debt
ギャンブルで借しゃっ金きんを重かさねてしまった。
He kept piling up debt from gambling.
借しゃっ金きんを清せい算さんするto settle or clear one's debts
ボーナスで借しゃっ金きんを清せい算さんした。
I cleared my debts with my bonus.

負ふ債さいN1sense 1
負債 is a formal accounting term for liabilities used in business contexts, while 借金 is the everyday word for personal debt or borrowing.
ローンN2sense 1
ローン refers to a structured loan such as a mortgage or car loan, while 借金 covers any kind of debt or borrowed money more broadly.
借かりN1sense 1
借り is a casual, often smaller-scale word for something owed (money or favors), while 借金 specifically means owing money.
借かり入いれ
借金 is the general, often negatively-tinged term for owed money, while 借り入れ is a neutral, formal term for the act of borrowing, especially from institutions.

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借しゃっ款かん
借金 is the everyday word for any debt or borrowed money, while 借款 is a formal term reserved for large-scale loans between governments or institutions.
借かり入いれ金きん
借金 is the everyday word for debt or money owed, while 借入金 is the formal, accounting-style term used in business and financial records.
債さい
借金 is the everyday word for personal debt or borrowing, while 債 is a formal, often bound morpheme used in financial compounds like 国債.
掛かけN1
借金 refers to debt or borrowed money in general, whereas 掛け specifically means money owed from a credit purchase or account.
債さい務む
借金 is the everyday word for money one has borrowed, while 債務 is a formal legal/financial term covering all kinds of obligations, not just loans.

貯ちょ金きんN4sense 1
貯金 means savings you have put aside, the opposite of 借金, money you owe to others.
返へん済さいN2
借金 means borrowing money or the debt itself, the opposite action to 返済, which means paying that debt back.
蓄たくわえ
借金 is money one owes, the financial opposite of 蓄え, which is money or resources one has set aside.

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貸かし金きん
貸金 is money lent viewed from the lender's side, while 借金 is the same debt viewed from the borrower's side.
財ざい産さんN3
借金 is debt owed to others, the practical opposite of 財産, which is wealth one owns.

借しゃく用よう sense 1
借用 means formally borrowing an object or item (as in a written agreement), whereas 借金 specifically means borrowing money and being in debt.

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Compound of 借 (borrow) and 金 (money). The reading しゃっきん is a standard Sino-Japanese on'yomi reading.