Translation of write – English–Japanese dictionary

write

verb

/raɪt/ us

/rɑɪt/

present participle writing | past tense wrote | past participle written

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to make words, letters, or numbers on a surface using a pen or pencil

～を書く

Write your name at the top of the page.

to send someone a letter

（人に）手紙を書く

I wrote her a letter last week.

Write to me!

to create a book, story, article, etc. or a piece of music

（小説など）を書く, ～を執筆する

He’s writing a book on Russian literature.

Phrasal verbs

write something down

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Translation of write | GLOBAL English–Japanese Dictionary

write

verb

/raɪt/

past wrote | past participle written

[ transitive-intransitive ]

to use a pen, pencil, etc. to mark words, numbers, etc. onto paper

書（か）く

I wrote her number on a piece of paper. 私は紙に彼女の番号を書いた。

She spent hours writing in her journal. 彼女は日記を書くのに何時間もかけた。

[ transitive-intransitive ]

to create a book, poem, song, etc.

書（か）く

I write the music and then we write the lyrics together. 私が曲を書くから、詞は一緒に書きましょう。

He often wrote about his mother. 彼はよく自分の母親のことを書く。

She writes for one of the daily newspapers. 彼女は日刊紙に寄稿している。

[ transitive-intransitive ]

to compose a letter, email, text message, etc.

書（か）く

Promise to write me every week. 毎週私に手紙を書くって約束して。

I wrote an angry email to her. 私は彼女に怒りのメールを打った。

I am writing to request an explanation. 説明をお願いしたくこの手紙を書いています。

fullForm fullForm write out [ transitive ]

to compose an official document

書（か）く

to write a will/check 遺書 / 小切手を書く

Examples of write

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The strength of this edited collection is that it brings together primarily economists writing about increasingly political questions.

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As to methodology, the authors combine a macrosociological and quantitative approach (using a written survey) with ethnography (meetings of focus groups).

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The present study examines expressions of identity in a corpus of multimodal texts written by four multilingual graduate student writers.

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The shape and shading of nodes will save us from writing controls in diagrams.

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The design objective is to allow the assembler to build an aggregate engine without writing any code.

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Renascence was written in 1974 for clarinet, prerecorded tape, and tape delay system.

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Often, when enterprises stop operating they are not sold ; they just close and are written off.

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All contributions are freshly written and replete with current references.

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Translations of write

in Chinese (Traditional)

寫，書寫, 寫（字）, （給…）寫信…

Translation of write – English–Japanese dictionary

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Examples of write

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