移い住じゅう

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じゅ

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移住する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	移い住じゅうする	移い住じゅうしない
Polite	移い住じゅうします	移い住じゅうしません
Past polite	移い住じゅうしました	移い住じゅうしませんでした
Past	移い住じゅうした	移い住じゅうしなかった
Te-form	移い住じゅうして	移い住じゅうしないで
Desire	移い住じゅうしたい	移い住じゅうしたくない
Potential	移い住じゅうできる	移い住じゅうできない
Passive	移い住じゅうされる	移い住じゅうされない
Causative	移い住じゅうさせる	移い住じゅうさせない
Causative passive	移い住じゅうさせられる	移い住じゅうさせられない
Volitional	移い住じゅうしよう
Polite volitional	移い住じゅうしましょう
Imperative	移い住じゅうしろ	移い住じゅうするな
Conditional	移い住じゅうすれば	移い住じゅうしなければ
Tara conditional	移い住じゅうしたら	移い住じゅうしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

migration; moving (to another place); emigration; immigration

Refers to relocating one's residence, especially to a distant or foreign place. Can be used for both emigration and immigration depending on context.

彼かれは仕し事ごとのためにカナダに移い住じゅうした。
He moved to Canada for work.
温おん暖だんな気き候こうを求もとめて多おおくの人ひとが南みなみへ移い住じゅうする。
Many people migrate south in search of a warmer climate.

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Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉に移い住じゅうするto migrate/move to a place
彼かれは退たい職しょく後ごにハワイに移い住じゅうした。
He moved to Hawaii after retiring.
〈場ば所しょ〉から〈場ば所しょ〉へ移い住じゅうするto migrate from one place to another
祖そ父ふ母ぼは戦せん後ご、韓かん国こくから日本にほんへ移い住じゅうした。
My grandparents emigrated from Korea to Japan after the war.
移い住じゅうを決きめるto decide to relocate/migrate
彼かれらは家か族ぞく全ぜん員いんでオーストラリアへの移い住じゅうを決きめた。
The whole family decided to move to Australia.

Kanji

移shift, move, change
住dwell, reside, live

Related words· 8

移い民みんN2
移民 refers to the people who emigrate/immigrate or to emigration itself, while 移住 focuses on the act of relocating one's residence.
引ひっ越こしN4
引っ越し is the everyday word for moving house, often locally, whereas 移住 implies a bigger relocation, often to a distant region or another country.
定てい住じゅう
移住 focuses on the act of moving to a new place, while 定住 emphasizes staying there permanently once settled.
植しょく民みん
移住 is the neutral term for settling in a new place, while 植民 specifically implies establishing political or economic control over that place as a colony.

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入にゅう植しょく
移住 is a broader term for relocating one's residence, whereas 入植 specifically implies joining or founding an organized agricultural or colonial settlement.
永えい住じゅうN1
移住 focuses on the act of relocating or migrating to a new place, whereas 永住 focuses on the resulting state of living there permanently.
移い動どうN3
移住 means settling permanently in a new place (migration/immigration), while 移動 just describes the act of moving without implying settling down.
転てん居きょN2
移住 implies a more permanent or long-distance relocation (often to another region or country), while 転居 is neutral about distance or permanence.

Opposites

定てい住じゅう
定住 means to settle down and live permanently in one place, the opposite of 移住's sense of relocating elsewhere.

Don't confuse with

居きょ住じゅうN1
移住 means to migrate or relocate to a new place, while 居住 refers to the ongoing state of already living somewhere.
移い植しょくN1
移住 means a person or population relocating to live somewhere new, while 移植 refers to moving a plant, organ, or embryo (or porting software), not people settling elsewhere.

Word family

移い住じゅう先さき
immigration destination; place to move to; place one has moved to
移い住じゅう民みん
immigrant; emigrant; migrant
移い住じゅう者しゃ
migrant; emigrant; immigrant
強きょう制せい移い住じゅう
forced emigration; forced relocation
移い住じゅう労ろう働どう者しゃ
migrant worker; expatriate worker

Etymology

Compound of 移 (i, 'move, shift') and 住 (jū, 'dwell, reside'). The combination naturally yields the meaning of moving one's residence to another place.