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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

新しん語ご

shingo

new word, neologism

Example sentences

  1. 次つぎに特徴的とくちょうてきなのは、多おおくの新語しんごや音訳おんやくの存在そんざいである。

    Another distinctive feature is the presence of many new words and transliterations.

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

  2. 知識人ちしきじんのみならず、下したで触ふれるように教育分野きょういくぶんやでも教科書きょうかしょとして採用さいようされたため、新語しんごの定着ていちゃくを促うながしたと思おもわれる。

    It was adopted not only by intellectuals but also, as discussed below, as a textbook in education, which seems to have helped the new words take root.

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

  3. 何故なぜならそれまで自文化じぶんかに無なかった新概念しんがいねんの紹介しょうかいのために新語しんごをひねり出だす必要ひつようにまず駆かられ、次つぎにそうした新語しんごばかり使用しようすると意味不明いみふめいな訳文やくぶんとなるためである。

    The reason is that translators must first coin new words to introduce concepts absent from their own culture, but using nothing but such words would make a translation incomprehensible.

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

Kanji in 新語

  • 新newOnシンKunあたらしい・あらた・あら-
  • 語word; speechOnゴKunかたる・かたらう

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