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儲かる
Meaning in Englishto be profitable, to yield a profit
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What it means
What does 儲かる mean? It means to be profitable or lucrative; used to describe a business, project, or investment that yields financial gain, typically indicating profits are likely or already realized.
Main meanings
- profitability of a business or project
- the state of turning a profit, used to describe ongoing finances
- a colloquial way to say something is financially advantageous or worth pursuing
How to use it
Used in formal and casual contexts to describe profits; typical grammar patterns include Xは儲かる and Xの事業が儲かる; polite form 儲かります; negative form 儲からない; te-form 儲かっている; prediction 儲かりそうだ.
Variants and close terms
- 儲ける (mokeru) - to profit, transitive
- 利益を得る (rieki o eru) - to gain profit
- 黒字になる (kuroji ni naru) - to become profitable
Composition
- 儲 core meaning: to store up, accumulate profits; in commerce it conveys financial gain
- る verb ending: marks the dictionary form commonly used for the basic form of the intransitive verb
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Verb (五段動詞)
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