束たばねる

also: つかねる

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

束ねる · ichidan verb

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	束たばねる	束たばねない
Polite	束たばねます	束たばねません
Past polite	束たばねました	束たばねませんでした
Past	束たばねた	束たばねなかった
Te-form	束たばねて	束たばねないで
Desire	束たばねたい	束たばねたくない
Potential	束たばねられるalso 束たばねれる	束たばねられないalso 束たばねれない
Passive	束たばねられる	束たばねられない
Causative	束たばねさせる	束たばねさせない
Causative passive	束たばねさせられる	束たばねさせられない
Volitional	束たばねよう
Polite volitional	束たばねましょう
Imperative	束たばねろ	束たばねるな
Conditional	束たばねれば	束たばねなければ
Tara conditional	束たばねたら	束たばねなかったら

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

bundle; tie up in a bundle

Used for gathering and tying together physical items like straw, hair, bills, or letters. Also used figuratively for organizing or consolidating things.

彼かれは古ふる新しん聞ぶんをひもで束たばねた。
He tied up the old newspapers with string.
髪かみを一ひとつに束たばねてポニーテールにした。
She gathered her hair into a ponytail.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

govern; manage; control

Figurative extension: to bring people or things under one's control, to administer or manage. Often used in political or organizational contexts.

彼かれは組そ織しきをうまく束たばねている。
He manages the organization well.
リーダーはチームを束たばねる役やく割わりを担になう。
The leader is responsible for bringing the team together.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

fold one's arms

Only with reading つかねる

Rare reading つかねる, used only in the fixed expression 手を束ねる (to fold one's arms). Not used in modern standalone contexts.

Usage patterns

髪かみを束たばねるto tie one's hair back into a bundle
彼かの女じょは髪かみをゴムで束たばねて仕し事ごとを始はじめた。
She tied her hair back with a rubber band and started work.
〈人ひと〉をひとつに束たばねるto unite/bring people together under one leadership
監かん督とくはチームをひとつに束たばねてきた。
The coach has united the team under his leadership.
稲いねを束たばねるto bundle up harvested rice stalks
農のう家かの人ひとたちが刈かった稲いねを束たばねている。
The farmers are bundling up the harvested rice stalks.
部ぶ下かを束たばねるto manage/oversee one's subordinates
彼かれは多おおくの部ぶ下かを束たばねる立たち場ばにある。
He is in a position to manage many subordinates.

Expressions

藁わらで束たばねても男おとこは男おとこa man is a man no matter how poor; a man's worth isn't in his appearance

Kanji

束bundle, sheaf, ream

Related words· 6

まとめるN3sense 1
まとめる is a general verb for putting things together or organizing, while 束ねる specifically implies physically tying items into a bundle or bringing people under one leader.
統とう率そつN1sense 2
統率する is a formal term for leading and commanding a group, while 束ねる can describe the same idea more broadly, including organizing objects as well as people.
縛しばるN3sense 1
縛る means to bind or tie tightly, often with rope and with a sense of restriction, whereas 束ねる focuses on gathering loose items into a neat bundle.
治おさめるN2sense 2
治める means to govern or rule (a region, organization) in an official sense, while 束ねる emphasizes drawing scattered people or things together under one control.

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結ゆうN1
束ねる means to gather or bundle things (like hair) into one mass, whereas 結う specifically means to arrange and tie hair into a fixed style.
括くくるN1
束ねる is used for gathering strand-like things (hair, sticks) into a bundle, while 括る is broader and can apply to any objects tied together.

Opposites

散ちらすN2sense 1
散らす means to scatter things apart, the opposite of 束ねる's sense of gathering items into a single bundle.

Word family

束たばね
bundle; control; management
束たばね積つむ
shock grain; bind and stack sheaves

Written forms

束ねるUsage88%
- たばねる
  Standard kanji spelling for the common reading たばねる.
- つかねる
  Rare reading used only in the fixed expression 手を束ねる (to fold one's arms).
たばねるUsage7%
つかねるUsage5%

Etymology

Derived from the noun 束 (たば, bundle) + verbal suffix ねる. The reading つかねる is a rare variant, possibly from an older form.