How to say action in Japanese

JLPTN3
活動★【かつどうkatsudou】 Inflection

noun / ~する noun:

  • action; activity

noun:

  • movie (esp. during the silent movie period) - abbreviation - obsolete term ➜ 活動写真

Example Sentences

私のwatashino娘musumeはha尻が重いshirigaomoiのでnode困るkomaru。
My daughter's slowness to take action is a pain.
接尾辞setsubijiについてnitsuite、１：【-ion】「行動koudou、状態joutai、過程katei、結果kekka」などnadoのno意iをwo表すarawasu名詞meishiをwo作るtsukuru。
Suffixes, 1: "-ion" creates nouns that show the meaning of 'action, state, process, results,' and so on.
未来進行形miraishinkougataはha、未来miraiのno時点jitenでde進行中shinkouchuuのno動作dousaやya出来事dekigotoをwo表現hyougenするsuruときtokiにni用いられますmochiiraremasuがga、例文reibunはha進行中shinkouchuuのno動作dousaとtoはha考えられませんkangaeraremasen。
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
今週konshuu、３日連続renzokuでdeカーKAAアクションAKUSHONものmonoのno外国gaikoku映画eigaをwo字幕jimakuでde見たmita。
This week I've watched foreign car-action movies with subtitles for three days in a row.
一体ittai何naniがga彼らkareraをwoそのsonoようなyouna行動koudouにni駆り立てたkaritatetaのnoかka？
What on earth spurred them to such an action?

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