テーブル

Meaning in English

table

Sentence

Related sentences

There are no published items in this section yet.

Dictionary

Word context

What it means

テーブル means a table—the furniture with a flat top used for meals, writing, or placing objects. In everyday Japanese it refers to the physical surface and its immediate surroundings, such as in homes, offices, or cafés.

Main meanings

A flat surfaced piece of furniture used for dining, working, or placing items.
In technology and software contexts it can denote a data table or a tabular UI element.
Often specified with modifiers like ダイニングテーブル or 食卓 to indicate dining or meal contexts.

How to use it

Used in casual and formal contexts to refer to the furniture item; in offices and homes it denotes the flat-surfaced surface for meals, work, or meetings. In compound nouns it can specify dining tables or related furniture, and in tech talk it may refer to a tabular data structure or UI element.

Variants and close terms

机 (tsukue) — desk
食卓 (shokutaku) — dining table
ダイニングテーブル (dainingu teeburu) — dining table

Etymology

loanword from English table, borrowed into Japanese as テーブル, with the long vowel indicated by the prolonged sound mark ー to render the English pronunciation teeburu.

Origin

Meiji period, late 19th century, introduction of Western-style furniture and associated vocabulary into Japan, leading to the adoption of テーブル as the standard loanword for the furniture piece.

Word class

Noun (gairaigo, loanword from English)