給食

Japanese

Kanji in this term
給	食
きゅう Grade: 4	しょく Grade: 2
kan’on

給食 (kyūshoku): a school lunch.

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 給食 (MC kip zyik, literally “to give, to supply + food, meal”). Sourced from the Chinese work 史記／史记 (Shǐjì, “Records of the Grand Historian”) completed in 91 BCE.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きゅうしょく [kyùúshókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kʲɨᵝːɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

給(きゅう)食(しょく) • (kyūshoku) ^{←きふしょく (kifusyoku)?}

1. the provision of a meal
2. a meal, usually lunch, provided by an organization to attendees or participants, such as by a school to its students or by a company to its employees

Verb

給(きゅう)食(しょく)する • (kyūshoku suru) ^{←きふしょく (kifusyoku)?}intransitive suru (stem 給(きゅう)食(しょく)し (kyūshoku shi), past 給(きゅう)食(しょく)した (kyūshoku shita))

1. to provide a meal, such as for students or employees

Conjugation

Conjugation of "給食する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	給食し	きゅうしょくし	kyūshoku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	給食し	きゅうしょくし	kyūshoku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	給食する	きゅうしょくする	kyūshoku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	給食する	きゅうしょくする	kyūshoku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	給食すれ	きゅうしょくすれ	kyūshoku sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	給食せよ¹ 給食しろ²	きゅうしょくせよ¹ きゅうしょくしろ²	kyūshoku seyo¹ kyūshoku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	給食される	きゅうしょくされる	kyūshoku sareru
Causative	給食させる 給食さす	きゅうしょくさせる きゅうしょくさす	kyūshoku saseru kyūshoku sasu
Potential	給食できる	きゅうしょくできる	kyūshoku dekiru
Volitional	給食しよう	きゅうしょくしよう	kyūshoku shiyō
Negative	給食しない	きゅうしょくしない	kyūshoku shinai
Negative continuative	給食せず	きゅうしょくせず	kyūshoku sezu
Formal	給食します	きゅうしょくします	kyūshoku shimasu
Perfective	給食した	きゅうしょくした	kyūshoku shita
Conjunctive	給食して	きゅうしょくして	kyūshoku shite
Hypothetical conditional	給食すれば	きゅうしょくすれば	kyūshoku sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

Korean

Hanja in this term
給	食

Noun

給食 • (geupsik) (hangeul 급식)

1. Hanja form^? of 급식 (“meal given by an organisation”).