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全部 (ぜんぶ, zenbu) Japanese meaning: all | Kotomora
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Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 を 全ぜん 部ぶ 食た べる to eat all of something
I ate all of the food that was served.
全ぜん 部ぶ で 〈 数かず 〉 になる to come to a total of a certain amount
The things I bought came to five thousand yen in total.
〈 事こと 〉 を 全ぜん 部ぶ 説せつ 明めい する to explain everything about a matter
The teacher explained all the reasons to us.
Related words· 17 全て and 全部 both mean 'all', but 全て feels a bit more formal or literary while 全部 is the everyday, concrete word for 'all of it'.
全体 refers to something as one whole system or unit, while 全部 emphasizes that every individual part or item is included.
皆 usually means 'everyone' and is people-focused and conversational, while 全部 is used for objects, amounts, or complete sets of things.
全部 is a plain noun meaning 'all' or 'the whole', while 丸々 is an adverb that emphasizes completeness or entirety, often with a nuance of 'without leaving anything out'.
Show 13 more 全部 is a neutral way to say 'all' or 'the whole', whereas 何もかも is more emphatic and stresses that absolutely nothing is left out, often with emotional weight.
全部 is a noun meaning 'all' or 'the whole', while 残らず is an adverb emphasizing that nothing is left over.
全部 is a flexible noun/adverb meaning 'all' or 'everything' usable on its own, while 全 is a bound prefix attached directly to another noun (全部→全員 is not natural, but 全国 is).
Opposites 一部 means 'a part' or 'some of', the direct opposite of 全部, which means 'all of'.
全部 means 'all' or 'the whole thing', the opposite of 半分's 'half'.
Don't confuse with 前部 (front part) and 全部 (all, everything) are pronounced identically as ぜんぶ but have completely unrelated meanings.
全部 means 'everything/all' in a general sense, while 全額 is specifically the total sum of money.
全部 means 'all of something' in a general, countable sense, whereas 全土 specifically refers to the whole territory of a country or region.
全員 means 'everyone' and refers only to people, whereas 全部 means 'everything/all' and is used for things or amounts, not people.
Written forms 全ぜん 部ぶ Usage 96%
Standard and very common kanji spelling for this word.
ぜんぶ Usage 4%
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound of 全, meaning 'all' or 'complete,' and 部, meaning 'part' or 'section'; together it refers to all parts, i.e. the whole.
全部 is the everyday word for 'all' or 'everything', while 一切 is more formal and emphatic, often used in legal or dramatic contexts.
全部 simply means 'all' or 'the whole amount', while 丸ごと emphasizes the unbroken, undivided state of the object.
全部 is the common, everyday word for 'all/everything', while 全点 is a narrower, more formal term used when treating a set as individually counted items or points.
全部 is a plain, everyday word for 'all/everything', while 軒並み is more emphatic and typically used in economic or news contexts to mean 'across the board'.
全部 is the everyday, casual word for 'all/everything', whereas 全量 is a formal term specifically for measurable quantities.
全部 is the plain, neutral word for 'all/everything', while そっくり adds the nuance of completeness with nothing left over, often used with verbs like 食べる or 忘れる.
全曲 is limited to musical pieces or tracks, whereas 全部 is a general word for 'all' that can apply to anything.
全部 is the common, neutral word for 'all' or 'everything', whereas ことごとく is a literary adverb emphasizing that absolutely every item, without exception, is affected.
全部 refers to the whole of a concrete set of items, while 万事 refers abstractly to all matters or affairs.
全部 is a plain word for 'all/everything', while 一式 implies a structured, complete collection of related items rather than just totality.
