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充てる (あてる, ateru) Japanese meaning: assign | Kotomora
Common word› Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 充てる · ichidan verb
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 充あ てる 充あ てない Polite 充あ てます 充あ てません Past polite 充あ てました 充あ てませんでした Past 充あ てた 充あ てなかった Te-form 充あ てて 充あ てないで Desire 充あ てたい 充あ てたくない Potential 充あ てられる also 充あ てれる 充あ てられない also 充あ てれない Passive 充あ てられる 充あ てられない Causative 充あ てさせる 充あ てさせない Causative passive 充あ てさせられる 充あ てさせられない Volitional 充あ てよう Polite volitional 充あ てましょう Imperative 充あ てろ 充あ てるな Conditional 充あ てれば 充あ てなければ Tara conditional 充あ てたら 充あ てなかったら
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ぎ
に
予よ
算さん
を
充あ
てる
必ひつ
要よう
が
ある
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We need to allocate a budget for next month's meeting.
We decided to set aside this room as a storeroom.
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 を 〈 事こと 〉 に 充あ てる to allocate/set aside something for a purpose
I set aside part of my salary for savings.
〈 時とき 〉 を 〈 事こと 〉 に 充あ てる to devote time to something
I plan to devote my day off to studying for the exam.
〈 人ひと 〉 を 〈 事こと 〉 に 充あ てる to assign someone to a task or role
We decided to assign the new employee to this project.
Related words 割り当てる also means 'assign' or 'allocate' but usually implies dividing something among multiple recipients or tasks, while 充てる focuses on setting aside a resource for a single specific purpose.
配分する means to distribute or apportion something proportionally among people or categories, whereas 充てる simply means to earmark a resource for a particular use.
振り分ける means to divide something up and assign the portions to different people or purposes, while 充てる is used for setting aside a resource for one specific purpose.
Don't confuse with 当てる is the common verb meaning 'to hit', 'to guess', or 'to apply', and though it shares the same reading あてる, 充てる specifically means to allocate or assign resources for a purpose.
宛てる (also read あてる) means to address a letter or document to someone, unlike 充てる which means to set aside resources for a purpose.
Etymology The kanji 充 means 'fill' or 'supply', and the verb あてる (当てる) broadly means 'apply' or 'direct toward'. 充てる is a specialized spelling for the sense of directing resources to a purpose.
