Illustration: Inside a neighborhood bakery before opening, a single small trial tray has been pushed to the end of the workbench. Production now fills the room: one baker portions dough, another shapes rolls, and a third pulls a fully loaded rack from the oven.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

本ほん格かく化か

honkakuka

to get into full swing

Example sentences

  1. 日本にっぽんで最初さいしょの人工港じんこうこうを博多はかたに築きずき貿易ぼうえきを本格化ほんかくかさせた。

    He built the artificial harbor in Hakata for the first time in Japanese history and began trade in earnest.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. マクドナルド1号店ごうてんが銀座ぎんざにオープンし、稲いねの減反政策げんたんせいさくが本格化ほんかくかした。

    The first McDonalds opened in Ginza and the acreage-reduction policy of rice began to be fully promoted.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 元々もともとは龍野たつのでのみ消費しょうひされていたが、18世紀半せいきなかばに京都きょうとへの出荷しゅっかが本格化ほんかくか。

    It was originally consumed only in Tatsuno, and shipment of it to Kyoto went into full swing in the middle of the 18th century.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 本格化

  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと
  • 格status; rankOnカク・コウ・キャク
  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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