労作する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 労作する | 労作しない |
| Polite | 労作します | 労作しません |
| Past polite | 労作しました | 労作しませんでした |
| Past | 労作した | 労作しなかった |
| Te-form | 労作して | 労作しないで |
| Desire | 労作したい | 労作したくない |
| Potential | 労作できる | 労作できない |
| Passive | 労作される | 労作されない |
| Causative | 労作させる | 労作させない |
| Causative passive | 労作させられる | 労作させられない |
| Volitional | 労作しよう | |
| Polite volitional | 労作しましょう | |
| Imperative | 労作しろ | 労作するな |
| Conditional | 労作すれば | 労作しなければ |
| Tara conditional | 労作したら | 労作しなかったら |
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Refers to the act of working hard, often physically or mentally demanding effort. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to labor'.
After years of toil, he finally achieved his goal.
This project requires considerable labor.
painstaking work; work of great effort
Refers to the product or result of hard work, such as a book, research, or artwork that clearly involved great effort. Often used to praise someone's output.
This paper is his painstaking work.
That dictionary is the fruit of decades of painstaking effort.
This dictionary is a painstaking work that took ten years to make.
The professor published a painstaking work summarizing years of research.
That novel is known as the author's painstaking masterpiece.