Illustration: At a Japanese school robotics club, a small wheeled robot has tipped sideways during a trial. Its builder slumps beside it, while a teammate kneels down and demonstrates a wider replacement wheelbase using spare parts.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

建けん設せつ的てき

kensetsuteki

constructive

Example sentences

  1. 君きみの意見いけんはとても建設的けんせつてきだ。

    Your opinion is very constructive.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 人ひとの揚あげ足あしを取とるばかりじゃなく、もっと建設的けんせつてきな意見いけんを言いってくれないかな。

    All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これは鉄道発祥国てつどうはっしょうこくイギリスの技術力ぎじゅつりょくを評価ひょうかしたことと、日本にっぽんの鉄道てつどうについて建設的けんせつてきな提言ていげんを行おこなっていた、駐日公使ちゅうにちこうしハリー・パークスの存在そんざいも大おおきかった。

    The choice was made not only because technical capabilities of Britain, the birthplace of railways, was highly evaluated but also because Harry Parkes, the Biritish minister in Japan, had presented constructive proposals on a railway in Japan.

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

Kanji in 建設的

  • 建buildOnケン・コンKunたてる・たて・たつ
  • 設establishment; provisionOnセツKunもうける
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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