Decrease in Japanese

Definition

Definition in EnglishTo become smaller in number or amount.

Definition in Japanese数や量が前より少なくなること。

Example sentences

• 車(くるま)で通勤(つうきん)する人(ひと)が減(へ)ってきました。🔊

  Fewer and fewer people have been driving to work.

• 三(さん)年(ねん)で三百人(さんびゃくにん)減(へ)りました。🔊

  In three years, the number went down by three hundred people.

• 車(くるま)で通勤(つうきん)する人(ひと)が減(へ)りつつあります。🔊

  The number of people driving to work is in decline.

Learn it in a lesson

• Describing trends in Japanese: 増えてきました and 変わりつつあります

decrease in other languages

• What decrease means
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• In French