► 名詞
形 [かたち] meaning: appearance rank: 1
☆ 形だけの民主主義 ⇨ A democracy only in format, appearance, name
☆ 彼は特別招待者の形で会議に参加した ⇨ He participated in the meeting as a special guest
☆ 目的が達成できれば形には拘らない ⇨ I don’t care how it looks as long as the objective is achieved
形 [かたち] meaning: shape rank: 1
☆ 変な形をした車 ⇨ A car with a weird shape
☆ 機能が優れた物は自然と形も良くなる ⇨ Things with good functionalities naturally tend to have pleasing shapes
形 [かたち] [形を取る] meaning: system rank: 1
☆ 現代の殆どの民主主義は代議制の形を取っている ⇨ Most of the modern democracy is in a representative format
形 [かたち] [liter] meaning: situation rank: 2
☆ 交渉は双方引かない形で終わった ⇨ The negotiation has ended where both sides refused to budge
☆ 会社は組合の要求を受け入れざるを得なくなった形だ ⇨ In the end the company had to accept the union’s demands
More examples:
- 彼女は整形していることがバレバレだ ⇨ It is so obvious, anybody can tell, that she has had cosmetic surgeries
- 何とも形容し難い味 ⇨ A taste you can’t really describe
- 複雑な曲線が独特な模様を形作っている ⇨ Complex curve lines form the unique pattern
- 母の忘れ形見の指輪 ⇨ A keepsake ring my late mother gave me
- あの女優には形容できない存在感が有る ⇨ That actress has an indescribable presence
- 手形 ⇨ Promissory notes
- 三角形、四角形、五角形 ⇨ Triangle, rectangle, pentagon
- 動詞の過去形 ⇨ The past tense of a verb
- 彼は形式ばかりで実質が伴っていない ⇨ He is all form but no substance
- 彼は針金を折り曲げて星の形を作った ⇨ He made a star shape by bending a wire
- 石油が現在の世界を形成した ⇨ Oil has shaped the today’s world
- 樹脂を金型に注入して成形する ⇨ We inject resin into metal molds to form
- 今は形振りを構っている場合じゃない ⇨ Now is not the time to care how I look, what people think
- 雛形に使った文書 ⇨ The document used as a template
- 象形文字 ⇨ Hieroglyphs