Illustration: At a Japanese apartment's kitchen table, a parent has set out a small allowance on a shallow tray beside a child's coin purse. The parent now adds another matching stack of coins directly beside the original stack, keeping one hand around both to present the enlarged total.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

増ぞう額がく

zougaku

to increase a monetary amount

Example sentences

  1. 境界確定きょうかいかくていの目的もくてきは主おもに地方交付税交付金ちほうこうふぜいこうふきんの増額ぞうがくである。

    The main purpose in establishing the borders was that each municipality could receive more of the state subsidies destined for municipalities.

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

  2. また、増額ぞうがくされた交付金こうふきんの半分はんぶんは琵琶湖びわこの保全ほぜんに使つかわれることが発表はっぴょうされている。

    Still, the announcement has been made that half of the increased subsidies would be allocated to the conservation of Lake Biwa.

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

  3. 民衆みんしゅうへは税ぜいの増額ぞうがくという形かたちで負担ふたんがのしかかり、さらに困窮こんきゅうにあえぐこととなり、清朝せいちょうへの不満ふまんが高たかまった。

    Increased taxes were imposed on the people and made them suffer from more poverty, leading to their increased dissatisfaction with the Qing dynasty.

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

Kanji in 増額

  • 増increase; addOnゾウKunます・まし・ふえる
  • 額forehead; tabletOnガクKunひたい

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