食事 (しょくじ, shokuji) Japanese meaning: meal | Kotomora

食しょく事じ

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 2,000

食事する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	食しょく事じする	食しょく事じしない
Polite	食しょく事じします	食しょく事じしません
Past polite	食しょく事じしました	食しょく事じしませんでした
Past	食しょく事じした	食しょく事じしなかった
Te-form	食しょく事じして	食しょく事じしないで
Desire	食しょく事じしたい	食しょく事じしたくない
Potential	食しょく事じできる	食しょく事じできない
Passive	食しょく事じされる	食しょく事じされない
Causative	食しょく事じさせる	食しょく事じさせない
Causative passive	食しょく事じさせられる	食しょく事じさせられない
Volitional	食しょく事じしよう
Polite volitional	食しょく事じしましょう
Imperative	食しょく事じしろ	食しょく事じするな
Conditional	食しょく事じすれば	食しょく事じしなければ
Tara conditional	食しょく事じしたら	食しょく事じしなかったら

Meanings

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

meal; dining

Refers to the act of eating a meal or the meal itself. Used as a noun and with する to mean 'to have a meal'.

朝ちょう食しょくは一いち日にちで一いち番ばん大だい事じな

Kanji

食eat, food
事matter, thing, fact

Related words· 9

ご飯はんN5sense 1
ご飯 is the everyday, casual word for a meal (or cooked rice), while 食事 is the more formal, neutral term used for meals in general contexts.
食しょく生せい活かつN1sense 2
食生活 refers to one's overall dietary habits or lifestyle, while 食事 in this sense means a specific eating regimen or pattern of meals.
飯めしN3sense 1
飯 is a blunt, colloquial word for a meal often used by men or in casual speech, whereas 食事 is polite and gender-neutral.
飲いん食しょく
食事 refers to a proper meal or the act of eating a meal, while 飲食 more broadly covers all eating and drinking, including snacks and drinks outside of a formal meal.

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会かい食しょくN1
食事 is the general word for a meal or the act of eating, while 会食 specifically means eating together with others in a social or business setting.
食しょくN1
食事 is the everyday word for a meal or the act of dining, while 食 is a more abstract, formal term often used in compounds or as a counter for meals.
食くい
食事 refers to a formal meal or the act of dining, while 食い is a casual, blunt noun for eating often used in compounds like 食い意地.
おまんま
食事 is the neutral, formal word for a meal, while おまんま (in its 'meal' sense) is casual and old-fashioned.

Don't confuse with

食しょく生せい活かつN1
食事 means a specific meal or the act of eating, whereas 食生活 describes the ongoing pattern of what and how one eats over time.
ミール
食事 means a meal as a dining occasion (breakfast, lunch, etc.), whereas ミール refers only to coarsely ground grain used as an ingredient, not to eating an occasion of food.

Counted with

食しょくN1
food; foodstuff · eating; appetite · meal; portion

Word family· 10

食しょく事じ代だい
cost of a meal; meal expenses
食しょく事じ会かい
dinner party; ceremonial dinner · meal meeting; business meal
食しょく事じ処どころ
restaurant; dining hall; dining room
食しょく事じ券けん
meal ticket; meal voucher

Etymology

Compound of 食 (eating) and 事 (matter, thing). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination naturally yields the meaning 'matter of eating' or 'meal'.

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