建物

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 大きな建物が建った。▶ —
   A large building was put up.
2. この建物は古い。▶ —
   This building is old.

Collocations

Mnemonic

Tatemono (建物) is "building" — B + no-cluster simple vocab. Kanji "tate (build) + mono (thing)" = a built thing. Nominalized causative of the verb tateru "to build." General usage: (1) furui or atarashii tatemono (old or new building); (2) mokuzou or tekkin or konkuriito tatemono (wooden, reinforced-bar, concrete structures); (3) tatemono no naka / soto (inside / outside the building); (4) nikai-date no tatemono (two-story building); (5) tatemono wo tateru (build a building — natural homophone repetition tatemono and tateru). Compare: biru (mid-to-high office or commercial buildings), tatemono (all-purpose architectural term covering housing, commercial, public), ie (home / residential only), juutaku (formal "residence"). Real-estate vocabulary: chiku nensuu (years since construction, for old vs new judgment), tekkin konkuriito zou (reinforced-concrete structure). Korean geonmul, Chinese jiàn-zhù, and Japanese tatemono are similar Sino loanwords. JLPT N5 plus a plain "building" entry.

Quick check

1. Register split of tatemono, biru, ie, juutaku?

   • Tatemono is the general architectural umbrella, biru is office/commercial mid-to-high-rise, ie is residential home only, juutaku is the formal residence term
   • Synonyms
   • Only tatemono is right
   • All four are equal